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COMMON  CONDITIONS 


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COMMON  CONDITIONS 


EDITED  BY 

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ASSISTANT  PROFESSOR  OF  ENGLISH  IN  YALE  UNIVERSITY 


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PREFACE 

HIS  edition  was  prepared  for  the  most  part  in  the  year 
191 3.  During  its  very  slow  progress  through  the  press, 
the  fragmentary  copy  of  Common  Conditions^  long  preserved 
at  Chatsworth  House  and  designated  in  the  notes  as  Cn.,  has 
passed  into  the  possession  of  H.  E.  Huntington,  Esq.,  of  New 
York.  To  the  present  owner  of  this  quarto,  no  less  than  to  His 
Grace  the  Duke  of  Devonshire  by  whose  permission  the  first 
collation  was  made,  grateful  acknowledgements  are  due.  Professor 
J.  M.  Manly  of  the  University  of  Chicago  has  been  good  enough 
to  read  and  criticize  the  proofs.  To  J.  R.  Maine,  Esq.,  Librarian 
at  Chatsworth,  to  Dr.  R.  B.  McKerrow,  and  particularly  to  the 
Librarian  of  the  Elizabethan  Club,  Andrew  Keogh,  Esq.,  I  take 
this  opportunity  of  expressing  thanks  for  much  assistance  and 
kindness  which  it  has  not  been  possible  to  acknowledge  more 
specifically. 

T.  B. 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


Facsimile  of  p.  C  iiv 

Introduction 

Common  Conditions 

Treatment  of  the  Text 

Notes    .... 

Appendix  I.    The  Authorship  of  Common  Conditions   . 

Appendix  II.    Manuscript  Notes  in  the  Elizabethan  Club  Copy 

of  Common  Conditions       . 
Appendix  III.  The  Chatsworth  (Huntington)  Quarto  and  Brandl's 

Reprint  ....... 


Frontispiece 

.    Page   ix 

Signatures  A-G 

.    Page  57 

•  »     59 

•  »     83 


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INTRODUCTION 

WERE  it  not  for  some  nearly  contemporary  manuscript  interlinea- 
tions in  the  copy  here  reprinted,  there  would  seem  to  be  no 
indication  that  a  complete  version  of  Common  Conditions  was  ever 
read  during  the  ten  generations  between  26  July  1576,  when  John  Hunter 
paid  the  Stationers'  Company  twelve  pence  for  "  license  to  ymprinte  a  newe 
and  pleasant  comedie  or  plaie  after  the  maner  of  common  condycons,"  and 
1  June  1907,  when  Lord  Mostyn's  quarto,  now  in  the  Elizabethan  Club 
library,  was  bought  by  Bernard  Quaritch. 

The  only  known  allusion  to  the  play  during  the  period  preceding  the 
Puritan  suppression  of  theatres  is,  pathetically  enough,  the  licensing  notice 
just  quoted.  Hunter's  twelve-penny  fee  might  seem  to  have  been  unprofit- 
ably  invested ;  and  it  is  doubtless  not  surprising  that  he — a  mere  unwar- 
ranted adventurer,  listed  by  Arber  among  "  those  Publishers  who  were 
never  members  of,  or  in  any  way  connected  with  the  Stationers'  Company  " 
— made  no  further  recorded  attempt  at  dramatic  publication.  The  argument 
from  mere  obscurity,  however,  is  in  such  cases  dangerously  two-edged.  The 
two  copies  of  the  play  which  have  struggled  through  the  centuries  are 
representatives  of  two  quite  separate  editions ;  and  if  the  silence  of  contem- 
porary writers  is  not  due  to  their  ignorance  of  the  drama's  existence,  it  may 
be  due  to  the  opposite  circumstance  of  too  vulgar  popularity,  which  while 
causing  a  book  to  be  rapidly  thumbed  out  of  existence  by  the  rabble,  some- 
times renders  it  in  the  meantime  too  trite  an  object  for  the  mention  of  more 
permanent  literature. 

In  any  case,  eighty  years  seem  to  have  elapsed  before  Common  Conditions 
received  even  the  honour  of  passing  mention.  In  the  play-lists  published  in 
1656  by  Rogers  and  Ley  and  by  Archer  the  bare  name  of  the  play  occurs, 
supplemented  in  the  second  case  by  the  letter  "  C[omedy]."  Under  the 
inaccurate  title  of"  Commons  Conditions"  it  reappeared  in  Francis  Kirkman's 
more  famous  Catalogue  of  Plays  (1661,  167 1).  From  Kirkman  the  distorted 
title  passed  to  Gerard  Langbaine,  who  lists  the  work,  with  characteristic 
candour,  as  "  Commons  Condition,  a  Comedy  which  I  never  saw  "  [Account  of 

ix  b 


x  INTRODUCTION 

the  English  Dramatic  Poets ;  1691)  and  in  another  book  as  "The  Commons 
Condition,  a  Comedy  of  which  I  can  give  no  Account"  (Lives  and  Char- 
acters of  the  English  Dramatic  Poets,  1699). 

In  The  British  Theatre,  published  at  Dublin  in  1750,  William  Rufus 
Chetwood — "  that  measureless  and  bungling  Lyar,"  as  George  Steevens 
calls  him — named  as  number  XLIX  in  his  list  of  "  Plays  wrote  by  Anony- 
mous Authors,"  "Commons  Condition,  a  Comedy,"  with  the  date  1676 — 
just  a  century  too  late.  Chetwood's  erroneous  date  and  the  erroneous  title 
were  continued  in  the  two  editions  of  Baker's  Biographia  Dramatica  (1764 
and  1782),  where  the  following  note  is  found:  "170.  The  Commons' 
Condition.  Com.  Anonym.  1676.  Of  this  nothing  more  than  the  name  is 
mentioned  in  any  of  the  catalogues." 

The  second  edition  of  Baker's  work  comprised  a  Supplement  of  Addi- 
tions and  Corrections  by  Isaac  Reed,  in  which  occurred  the  first  definite 
discussion  of  the  play.  "  This  play,"  Reed  writes,  "  (of  which  the  copy 
before  me  wants  both  the  first  and  concluding  leaves)  is  to  all  appearance  as 
ancient  as  Gammer  Gurton,  or  any  other  comic  piece  in  the  English  lan- 
guage." He  quotes  the  entry  of  the  play  on  the  Stationers'  Register  and 
gives  a  list  of  the  dramatis  personae,  adding :  "  Between  the  acl:s  of  this 
piece  there  are  no  intervals,  nor  is  there  much  connection  between  the 
different  couples  of  lovers,  except  such  as  is  brought  about  by  the  good  and 
ill  offices  of  Common  Conditions,  who  assists  the  interests  of  some  and  per- 
plexes that  of  others.  The  present  drama,  however,  exhibits  perhaps  the 
earliest  examples  of  naval  dialogue  on  the  stage,  as  well  as  of  the  English 
language  distorted  by  foreign  pronunciation." 

It  is  evident  that  the  copy  Reed  examined  was  the  fragmentary  one 
which  during  three-quarters  of  the  past  century  was  in  the  possession  of  the 
Dukes  of  Devonshire.  It  may  possibly  have  been  the  same  copy  that  gave 
rise  to  the  notices  of  Kirkman  and  the  other  cataloguers,  these  notices  being 
all  too  vague  to  indicate  whether  the  play  mentioned  lacked,  as  the  Devon- 
shire quarto  now  does,  nearly  thirty  per  cent,  of  its  original  contents.  There 
is,  however,  much  more  reason  to  believe  that  it  was  the  complete  copy, 
now  in  the  Elizabethan  Club,  which  Kirkman  and  his  contemporaries  knew. 
Lord  Mostyn  kindly  informs  me  that  he  thinks  that  the  latter  copy  was  brought 
to  Mostyn  Hall  about  1690;  that  is,  during  the  generation  following 
Kirkman.  Now  two  of  the  other  books  which  similarly  passed  from  Mostyn 
Hall  to  the  Elizabethan  Club  by  way  of  Quaritch  are  Copland's  rare  edition 
of  John  Heywood's  Four  P  and  the  apparendy  unique  copy  of  John 
Phillip's  Patient  and  Meek  Grissell.  Both  of  these  have  pages  cut  to  pre- 
cisely the  size  of  the  pages  of  the  Elizabethan  Club  Common  Conditions 
(171  mm.  by  130  mm.).  All  three  of  the  quartos  have  suffered  considerably 
from  clipping,  and,  though  Quaritch  bought  them  separate  and  unbound,  it 


INTRODUCTION  xi 

looks  as  if  they  had  originally  been  bound  up  together.  Since,  then,  Phillip's 
Grissell  is  last  heard  of,  before  its  reappearance  at  the  Mostyn  sale  in  1907, 
in  the  same  catalogues  of  Archer  and  Kirkman  which  mention  Common 
Conditions,  it  is  not  unlikely  that  those  booksellers  in  the  latter  half  of  the 
seventeenth  century  knew  the  particular  Elizabethan  Club  copies  of  the 
three  plays,  which  probably  passed  together,  toward  the  end  of  the  century, 
into  the  obscurity  of  the  Mostyn  Hall  library  in  North  Wales. 

The  other,  fragmentary,  quarto  of  the  play,  described  by  Reed,  is  first 
heard  of  in  the  library  of  Dr.  Wright  of  Charles-street,  Grosvenor  Square, 
in  the  latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  century.  During  this  period,  Malone 
made  an  admirable  transcript,  of  which  the  original  is  now  in  the  Bodleian 
Library  and  a  copy  in  the  Dyce  Collection  of  the  Victoria  and  Albert 
Museum,  South  Kensington.1  Upon  the  sale  of  Wright's  books,  in  1787, 
George  Steevens  bought  the  mutilated  quarto  for  five  guineas.  A  long  and 
valuable  note  in  Steevens's  handwriting  still  covers  several  of  the  fly-leaves. 
At  the  death  of  Steevens,  in  1 800,  the  book  passed  to  the  third  Duke  of 
Roxburgh  for  £6  10s. ;  and  at  the  famous  Roxburgh  sale  (18 12)  was 
bought  for  £4  5J-.  by  Richard  Heber.  In  the  sale  catalogue  of  the  Heber 
library,  1 834,  it  was  listed  as  number  46 1 7  (Part  2),  and  was  sold,  for  £32,  to 
the  Duke  of  Devonshire.  It  remained  in  the  library  at  Chatsworth  House 
until  1 9 14,  when  it  was  purchased  by  H.  E.  Huntington,  Esq.,  of  New 
York;  and  is  referred  to  in  my  notes  of  variant  readings  as  "  Ch." 

This,  the  Chatsworth  or  Huntington  quarto,  was  seen  by  J.  P.  Collier 
and  discussed  at  some  length  in  his  History  of  English  Dramatic  Poetry 
(1831).  It  was  first  reprinted,  in  1898,  by  Professor  Brandl  (ghiellen  und 
Forschungen,  Heft  80)  from  a  new  transcript  inferior  to  that  made  by  Malone. 
Brandl's  version  was  reprinted,  with  some  errors  and  a  few  emendations,  by 
John  S.  Farmer  {Five  Anonymous  Plays,  1908),  whose  notes  contain  an 
allusion  to  the  complete  Mostyn  copy. 

A  comparison  of  the  newly-discovered  quarto  (£.C),here  first  reprinted, 
with  the  Chatsworth  copy  shows  that  they  belong  to  different  editions.  Of 
the  forty  pages  which  the  two  books  have  in  common,  seventeen  end  at 

1  Malone's  transcript  of  "  Commons'  [sie]  Conditions "  is  the  fourth  of  six  manuscript 
copies  of  early  plays,  bound  together  in  a  Bodleian  volume  formerly  known  as  Malone  228, 
but  recently  recatalogued  as  MS.  Malone  32.  The  other  contents  are  :  Araignment  of  Paris, 
1584;  Old  Wife's  Tale,  1595;  James  the  Fourth,  1598;  Robyn  Hode,  n.d.;  Kyng  Daryus, 
1565.  The  Dyce  copy  was  made  from  Malone's,  from  which  it  differs  in  not  preserving  the 
pagination  or  catchwords  of  the  original  quarto.  The  Bodleian  transcript  is  thought  to  be 
throughout  in  the  handwriting  of  Edmund  Malone.  That  at  South  Kensington,  however,  was 
not  written  by  Dyce  himself,  though  the  pencilled  emendation  at  1.  1060  is  probably  in  his 
hand.  The  date  of  the  South  Kensington  transcript  is  ascertained  by  the  water-mark  on  the 
paper  to  be  not  earlier  than  1827.  For  assistance  on  these  points  I  am  much  indebted  to  my 
friend,  T.  Gambier-Parry,  M.A.,  of  the  staff  of  the  Bodleian,  and  to  the  Direftor  of  the 
Victoria  and  Albert  Museum. 


xii  INTRODUCTION 

different  lines.  Above  two  hundred  significant  variations  in  wording  or 
typography  occur.  That  the  Elizabethan  Club  copy  is  the  older  is  proved 
by  several  kinds  of  evidence:  by  the  fad:  that  it  contains  a  vast  number  of 
abbreviated  spellings,  such  as  would  be  found  in  the  author's  manuscript, 
which  the  Chatsworth  quarto  has  usually  normalized  (i.e.  med,  whe  .  .  . 
haged,  w,  f,  f,  y);1  by  the  fad  that  it  contains  at  least  nine  words  necessary 
either  to  the  sense  or  metre  which  the  other  text  has  omitted  by  mistake;2 
and  by  the  fad  that  the  Chatsworth  quarto  in  eight  instances3  misprints 
the  corred  reading  of  the  Elizabethan  Club  copy  and  in  four  others4 
mischievously  emends  corred  readings  which  the  compositor  of  the  later 
edition  failed  to  understand. 

The  Chatsworth  fragment  comprises  only  the  central  forty  pages  of  the 
fifty-six  which  make  up  the  complete  play  (signatures  B-F).  By  Brandl's 
numeration,  this  portion  includes  1,421  lines,5  whereas  the  complete  play 
has  in  the  Elizabethan  Club  copy  1,904.  The  discovery  of  the  latter  copy, 
by  giving  us  the  title-page  and  212  lines  at  the  beginning  of  the  drama  and 
259  lines  at  the  close,  alters  very  radically  the  impression  created  by  reading 
the  central  part  alone. 

All  previous  critics  have  assumed  a  conventional  happy  ending  for  the 
piece,  such  as  the  running  title  "  A  pleasant  Comedie "  would  suggest. 
Thus  Collier  wrote:  "The  varied  history  of  neither  couple  is  concluded  at 
the  end  of  the  fragment,  though  it  is  pretty  clear  that  the  author  designed 
his  piece  to  end  happily."  Professor  Brandl  boldly  promises  the  highest 
felicity:  "With  the  help  of  Common  Conditions  Lamphedon  must  find 
Clarisia  again;  then  there  are  in  readiness,  in  order  to  shower  earthly  bliss 
upon  them,  the  childless  Leostines,  the  heirless  royal  uncle  in  Thrace,  and 
certainly  also  the  temporarily  estranged  ducal  parents  of  Lamphedon. 
Nomides,  on  the  other  hand,  must  be  driven  by  his  repulse  with  Clarisia 
toward  the  previously  scorned  Sabia.  And  then,  too,  there  will  not  lack  the 
reunion  of  the  brother  and  sister,  Nomides  and  Clarisia,  with  each  other, 
and  with  their  enriched  father  Galiarbus."  6  Professor  Schelling  imagines  a 
similar  conclusion:  "In  Common  Conditions  .  .  .  the  turbulent  stream  of 
true  love  runs  through  three  continents    ...   to  unite  at  last  Lamphedon, 

1  Cf.  11.  248,  260  f.,  418,  421. 

2  LI.  906,  1200,  1308,  1 3 1 4 ?,  1402?,  1482,1506,1532,1557,1575.  The  tendency  of 
the  Chatsworth  quarto  to  correct  the  infinitive  "  for  to  "  into  "  to "  in  violation  of  the  metre  is 
alone  almost  sufficient  proof  of  later  date.  The  only  word  properly  added  in  the  Chatsworth 
text  is  one  whose  omission  in  the  other  version  is  obvious  (1.  1236);  the  other  additions  in 
Ch.  (II.  718,  934,  1369,  1414,  1550)  are  evidently  gratuitous. 

3  LI.  836,  894,  1060,  1284,  1369,  1438,  1 55 1,  1580. 
*  LI.  365,  410,  833,  1414. 

5  Brandl's  numbering  is  at  fault,  because  his  copyist  has  inadvertently  omitted  two  lines. 

6  Translated  from  Professor  Brandl's  introduction,  Quellen  und  Studien,  80,  p.  cxiv  f. 


INTRODUCTION  xiii 

Duke  of  Phrygia,  to  the  peerless  Clarisia  .  .  .  and  Nomides,  an  Arabian 
knight,  to  Sabia,  the  daughter  of  a  French  [sic]  physician." 

So  anyone  would  expect  from  reading  the  particular  portion  of  the 
play  which  has  hitherto  been  alone  accessible.  But  the  newly  recovered 
prologue  warns  us,  in  language  one  would  almost  like  to  hold  prophetic, 
against  judgements  based  upon  incomplete  understanding: 

You  skilfull  heads,  that  sit  in  place  to  see,  likewise  to  heare, 
What  openly  by  Aftours  deeds  in  place  shall  straight  appeare: 
Beefore  your  vigill  wakefull  eyes  therfore  perpend  it  well, 
For  the  acts  in  order  follow,  which  the  preface  may  not  tell. 
But  thus  I  shew,  most  strange  it  is,  and  pittifull  beside, 
Mixt  both  w  mirth,  &  pleasant  showes:  wherfore  we  pray  you  bide 
The  last  as  well  as  first  to  see,  then  vprightly  iudge  and  way 
Our  Authors  minde  and  doyng  his,  in  that  which  wee  display. 
Let  iudgement  then  from  you  proceede  discreetly  to  be  showne, 
And  let  not  rashnes  ouersoone  to  mutch  abroade  be  blowne. 

If  critical  rashness  has  indeed  too  much  abroad  been  blown  in 
judgement  of  this  play,  the  fault  is  more  than  pardonable.  The  most 
opinionated  author  could  hardly  demand  that  the  public  bide  "  perpending  " 
his  work  for  331  years  before  venturing  upon  conjecture  regarding  the 
nature  of  the  piece.  However,  the  restored  final  portion  shows  that  the 
term  "pleasant  comedie"  in  the  title  is  employed  with  a  vagueness 
characteristic  of  the  period  of  composition.  "  Mirth  and  pleasant  showes  " 
do  occur  freely  in  the  first  and  middle  sections;  but  of  the  conclusion  one 
can  only  say,  in  the  words  of  the  prologue,  "  most  strange  it  is  and  pittifull 
beside."*  The  story  of  Nomides  and  Sabia  is  left  entirely  unfinished,  and 
Clarisia  is  reunited  with  Lamphedon  only  that  both  of  them  may  perish  from 
poison  ordered  by  the  amiable  Leostines  and  administered  by  the  previously 
not  altogether  unfaithful,  though  erratic,  Conditions. 

Even,  however,  when  the  Epilogue  and  the  "  Finis  "  are  reached,  the 
play  is  not  properly  ended.  There  remains  a  shred  of  hope  for  those  who 
desire  to  see  Lamphedon  and  Clarisia  happy  ever  after,  and  who  insist  upon 
regarding  Conditions  as  on  the  whole  a  beneficent  elf.  For,  though 
Lamphedon  has  drunk  of  the  poisoned  goblet,  has  remarked,  "  Ha  heauens, 
what  lothsom  thing  is  this,  y  boileth  in  my  brest?"  and  has  said  his  last 
adieu,  he  is  not  formally  certified  as  dead,  and  Clarisia  has  but  put  the  cup 
to  her  lips,  when  the  author  breaks  off  with  sudden  apologies  for  the  length 
of  the  play. 

The  cryptic  and  incomplete  conclusion  bears  out  the  important  state- 
ment on  the  title-page  that  the  drama  is  "  drawne  out  of  the  most  famous 
historie  of  Galiarbus  Duke  of  Arabia."  Clearly,  this  story  was  never  invented 
for  the  purposes  of  the  play,  but  had  previously  dragged  its  slow  length 
along  through  the  pages  of  some  lost  romance.     There  is  that  about  the 


xiv  INTRODUCTION 

final  lines  of  our  text  which  even  suggests  the  suspicion  that  the  covered 
goblet  so  cheerfully  forced  by  Conditions  upon  his  master  and  mistress  may 
in  the  original  have  contained  only  one  of  the  harmless  potions  dear  to 
Elizabethan  literature,  though  the  author  of  the  play,  alarmed  that  his  piece 
has  already  exceeded  the  usual  limits  of  its  species,  dare  not  allow  himself 
the  additional  pages  necessary  to  tell  us  so.  We  have  a  converse  example  of 
such  drastic  interference  with  the  natural  outcome  of  a  story  for  the  imme- 
diate purposes  of  an  embarrassed  playwright  in  the  interlude  of  Calisto  and 
Melibcea,  where  a  happy  romantic  ending  is  roughly  hammered  out  of  the 
cynical  tragedy  of  Celestina. 

It  may  be  that  the  inconclusiveness  of  the  play's  termination  was 
condoned  in  the  eyes  of  a  contemporary  audience  by  the  familiarity  of  its 
avowed  source:  "the  most  famous  historie  of  Galiarbus  Duke  of  Arabia^ 
and  of  the  good  and  eeuill  successe  of  him  and  his  two  children."  But  of 
this  most  famous  history  the  present  age  knows  nothing,  and  no  allusion 
to  it  seems  discoverable.  Till  a  copy  of  it  is  found,  in  the  course  of 
something  more  or  less  than  another  three  hundred  years,  we  shall  doubtless 
have  to  wait — as  we  have  awaited  the  emergence  of  the  complete  play — for 
knowledge  of  what  did  finally  happen  to  Galiarbus,  Sedmond,  and  Clarisia.1 

Of  the  author  of  Common  Conditions  there  is  even  less  indication  than 
of  the  source.  The  play  shares  its  most  distinctive  literary  qualities  with  a 
dozen  other  transitional  interludes  of  Elizabeth's  early  reign.  We  find  the 
usual  overlaying  of  morality  motives  with  a  veneer  of  Latin  allusion,  and  a 
more  essential  admixture  of  romantic  interest.  The  predominant  metre  is, 
as  usual,  the  riming  heptameter  couplet,  sometimes  arbitrarily  abbreviated 
or  drawn  out,  and  not  infrequently  embellished,  as  in  Cambises  and  Clyomon 
and  ClamideSj  with  an  additional  internal  rime  between  the  second  and  fourth 
feet.a  A  particularly  close  affinity  relates  Conditions  to  the  last-named  play, 
where  similarly  a  roguish  vice-servant,  ranging  through  a  multiplicity  of 
strange  regions,  entangles  the  threads  of  a  two-ply  romantic  tale,  and  where 
indeed  the  love-pains  of  Neronis  and  Clyomon  run  nearly  parallel  with 
those  of  Clarisia  and  Lamphedon. 

The  title  of  Common  Conditions  and  the  character  of  the  titular  figure  invite 
especial  attention.  That  the  vice  or  clown  should  be  the  dominant  personality 
in  a  play  was  at  the  period  we  are  discussing  rather  the  rule  than  the 
exception,  but  there  can  hardly  be  found  another  instance  in  which  he  is 
accorded  the  title-r61e  in  a  full-length  drama.3     When  the  vice  masquerades 

1  To  the  Professor  of  Semitic  Languages  in  Yale  University  ]  owe  the  suggestion  that 
Galiarbus  might  easily  be  a  corruption  of  Halt  Arabus.  Neither  in  the  plot  of  the  play, 
however,  nor  in  the  names  of  the  other  characters  can  Professor  Torrey  find  any  trace  of  an 
oriental  source. 

2  E.g.,  11.  33-40. 

3  Thersites  and  Jack  Juggler  are,  of  course,  not  exceptions  to  this  statement. 


INTRODUCTION  xv 

in  individual  scenes  of  our  play  as  Master  Affection  or  as  Gravity,  he  is  but 
following  an  insipid  morality  convention;  but  under  his  proper  appellations, 
Common  Conditions  and  Mediocrity,  he  embodies  a  philosophic  idea  that 
has  considerable  interest.  Near  the  beginning  of  the  play  he  says  of  himself 
(1.  157  ff.): 

There  are  two  sorts  of  coditions  as  I  ges. 
For  there  are  good  and  eeuell  conditions  the  truth  to  confesse. 
And  to  which  of  these  twaine  thinke  you  disposed  am  I  ? 

******* 

As  nere  as  I  can  ile  vse  a  mediocritie  by  the  way. 

And  Mediocritie  is  my  name  though  condicions  they  mee  call, 

Nere  kinde  (kin)  to  dame  fortune  to  raise  and  to  let  fall. 

In  the  operation  of  this  puzzling  figure,  therefore,  whose  erratic 
interferences  now  assist  and  now  embarrass  the  heroes,  the  author  seeks  to 
read  a  parable  of  the  common  conditions  of  life.  It  is  a  discomforting  picture 
of  the  career  of  those,  neither  wholly  happy  nor  unhappy,  whose  fortunes 
fall  under  the  guidance  of  the  doubtfully  named  Mediocritas  aurea. 

It  is  easy  to  question  the  logic  of  the  poet,  but  he  can  hardly  be  denied 
credit  for  much  subdety,  when  one  realizes  that  the  inconsistencies  in  the 
action,  for  which  he  seeks  to  account  metaphorically,  are  not  of  his  own 
making,  but  a  necessary  incident  of  dramatic  progress.  The  pivot  upon 
which  the  whole  action  of  the  piece  turns,  "Common  Conditions,  the  Vice," 
is  a  remarkably  conspicuous  agglomeration  of  three  very  different  roles.  In 
the  capacity  he  derives  from  the  old  moral  drama  it  is  his  function  to  amuse, 
tempt,  and  mislead  frail  mankind;  in  the  capacity  of  Latin  parasite,  which 
he  repeatedly  claims  for  himself,  he  must  be  the  incarnation  of  cowardly  and 
deceitful  self-interest;  while  in  his  newer  and  more  vital  character  of  clown 
or  "  fool,"  he  must  show  himself  the  indomitably  humorous  and  ingenious 
guide,  philosopher,  and  friend  to  those  he  serves.  The  new  and  the  old 
demands  could  not  be  made,  to  jibe:  hence  the  notable  havoc  wrought  by 
the  Ambidexters  and  Subtle  Shifts  of  the  period  upon  the  structure  of  the 
plays  in  which  they  figure.  In  no  other  transitional  interlude  is  there  so 
frank  an  illustration  of  the  general  difficulties  of  the  dramatic  situation  or  so 
original  an  effort  at  palliating  an  incongruity  which  the  author  evidently 
realized,  but  which  no  writer  of  this  type  of  drama  could  wholly  remove. 
For  those  who  follow  the  perplexed  history  of  "Vice"  and  "Fool,"  Common 
Conditions  must  remain  a  peculiarly  interesting  document,  no  less  than  for 
those  who  seek  to  make  clear  the  steps  by  which  English  drama  mounted 
to  its  highest  Elizabethan  function,  its  place  of  expositor  of  heroic  and 
romantic  story. 


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An  excellent  and  pleafant  Gome- 

die,  termed  after  the  name  of  the  Vice, 
Common  Contrfcfons,  Djatone  out  of  tibe  mofl 

famous  hiftorie  oiGaliarbus  Duke  of  Arabia^  and  of 

tbc  goon  anti  ceuill  fucccttc  of  Ijim  ant)  bis  ttoo 

children^  Sedmond  fosjiin,  and  Clarifia  his 

dautjr&ter:  feet  £00^  toft!)  Delectable 

mfrttj,anu  pleaCant  fyetoetf* 

f  €&e  ipiapers  name*. 


The  Prologue. 
Galiarbus,  t&e  OlUe  Dtlfee 

Of  Arabia. 
Sedmond,  JUS  fun, 

Clarifia,  fug  oaug&tet. 

Common  Condicions, 

tfie  (Bice. 

Shift.       1 

Drift.       r  3.  Tinkers. 

Vnthrift.-* 

Metrea,  a  maptJC 

Leoftines,  a  knigfjt  tfjat 

lOtietj)  Metrea. 
Lamphedon,  a  fetugjbt 


t{jat  lOUetJ)  Clarifia,  ana 

figbtetj)  foi  fter* 
Nomides,  a  knig&t  tfjat 

lOUetJ)  Metrea. 

Cardolus,  a  kntgfjt  t&at 
fig&tetfr  tottf)  Lam- 
phedon. 

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Mountagos,  a  ^pamatD. 
Sabia,  J)i0  Daughter. 
Lomia,  a  naturall  foole. 


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v©u  fWItuil  beads,  tbat  fit  in  place  to  fee,  lifcetoife  to  beare, 

flfllbat  openlp  tip  aftours  needs  in  place  flfmll  llraigbt  appeare: 
15eefo?e  pout  tiigill  toafeefull  epes  tfterfo?e  perpend  it  toell. 
JFo?  tbe  acts  in  ojder  folloto,  tobicb  tbe  preface  map  not  telL 
TBut  tbu0  3Itfteto,  moft  Grange  it  is,  and  pittifull  befide, 
8$irt  botb  to  mirtb,  $  pleafant  Ibotoes:  toberfoje  toe  p^ap  pou  bide 
Cbe  la(!  as  toell  as  firft  to  fee,  tben  dprigbtlp  iudge  and  toap 
©ur  autbo#  minde  ano  dopng  bis,  in  tbat  tojjicl)  toee  difplap. 
let  iuogement  tben  from  pou  p^oceede  difcreetlp  to  fie  sbotone, 

.o  ann  let  not  raflmes  ouerfoone  to  nuitcb  afyoaoe  tie  blotone. 
JFoj  tbus  toee  no  perftoade  our  felues,  if  fimple  autbo?s  ffcill 
§>8douUj  Seneca  erceede  in  tierfe,  o?  Ouids  pleafant  quill: 
£D?  coulD  tell  mo*e  tben  Tullies  toit,  efee  Homer  put  a  fine, 
pet  no  toee  oeeme  fome  e^omus  toould  bim  fko?ne,  mocfce,  $  deride. 
TBut  as  be  notb  deepe  ioto  deftend  from  tbefe  rigbt  famous  toigbts: 
^0  uotf)  be  Hand  in  redines  to  bare  tbofe  s^omus  fpigbts, 
get  fiaies  bim  on  tbis  fteaofaft  bope,  tbe  toife  bis  fimple  paine 
Will  toell  ercept,  ano  tbat  is  all  tbat  bee  oootb  feefce  to  gaine. 
Let  tbis  foi  preface  pou  fuffice,  tbe  aftours  reop  llano, 

20  gour  patience  erneftlp  toee  craue  to  pjoceede  out  of  band. 

f  J)ere  enttetb  Galiarbus,  toitb  Sedmond, 
and  iLaDp  Clarifia. 

]yf  p  cbild^en  botb,  tobofe  aged  §>per  from  natiue  fopll  mull  pas,  Galiarb<us.) 

Co  lead  bis  life  in  fo?raine  llanos,  fo;  in  daine  tis  alas 
Co  craue  of  fting  Arbaccus  bee,  in  Arabia  to  remaine, 
C&beras  pour  ageo  motber  Ibee  ber  coupes  in  eartb  batb  laine. 
§>utcb  toas  tbe  fptgbt  of  Parafites,  fo  is  Dame  fortune  flraunge 
Cbat  31  ftom  out  Arabia  mud  in  otber  cuntreis  range, 
ano  tbis  tbe  lafi  oap  is  pou  fee,  tbat  31  map  bere  remaine 
With  pou  mp  cbiiuien  botb  alas,  tobicb  caufetb  mee  complaine 
OHitb  trebell  care  ano  penfliuenes,  ba  all  mp  onlp  iop, 
30  €bt  figbt  of  pou  ootb  caufe  me  noto  to  toaile  toitb  great  annop. 
ano  tberfo^e  mp  fonne  Sedmond  noto  on  tbis  mp  blefltnge  bere, 
31  cbarge  tbee  to  remaine  fo?  ape  true  to  tbp  filler  oere. 

a  a  iBe 

5  thus],  i.e.y  this.         12  exceede],  exeeede,  E.C.        18  except],  /.*.,  accept. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


TBe  tbou  a  flap,  to  bet  oecap,  a  tocfee  anD  fotfteffe  tltong, 

ano  no  not  fee,  bet  ennimp,  to  p^ofet  bet  futcb  to^onge. 

IBtz  tbou  ber  ftieio,  in  totone  ano  fielo,  bet  fence  ano  onelp  flap, 

Let  not  bet  foe,  procure  bet  tooe,  31  battelp  tbee  p?ap. 

TBe  tbou  bet  fteeno,  onto  tbe  eno,  bet  faitbfull  tyotfjet  ttue, 

ano  gtaunt  tbat  ftee,  temaine  toitb  tbee,  left  ooubtfull  cates  enfue. 

€bu0  31  tbp  fiet,  of  tbee  tequite,  a0  outp  ootb  tbee  binoe, 

Let  natute  tule  tbee,  to  cbetift  bet  ttulp,  ano  be  to  bet  mott  funoe.  4o 

<Sed>mond.     IRigbt  louinge  (iet,  tobofe  cbatge  toell  toaio  9  loogeo  in  mp  tyeff, 
SBbofe  minoe  as  it  oio  neuet  ttoatue  but  peioeo  to  pout  belie, 
31  am  pout  Sedmond  till  31  tiie,  31  am  ano  toill  temaine 
eip  fiftetiB!  ttue  ano  faitbful  fteeno  tbougb  31  tbe  oeatb  fuflaine. 
£be  cbatge  tbat  pou  baue  geuen  mee  ftalbe  petfo^meo  fute, 
£be  toigbt  tbat  ootb  mp  fiftet  tojong  bt0  oeatb  toill  31  p^ocute. 
ano  tbetfo^e,  mp  ftoeete  louing  fiet,  fo?  t)0  take  pou  no  cate, 
&bz  goO0  toe  ttuft  (ball  00  oefeno,  ano  tio  ftom  out  tbeit  §>nate, 
iBut  ba  mp  fatbet  gtaunt  tbat  31  tbp  Icarus  map  bee 
Co  toeno  ano  otoell  in  moons  ano  Caues  to  liue  ano  Hie  toitb  tbee.  5o 

<cia>rifia.       ano  gtaunt  Galiarbus  mp  ftoeet  fite,  tbat  31  toitb  tbee  map  goe, 
ano  not  foj  to  temaine  bebino  to  toaill  toitb  cate0  ano  tooe. 

<Ga>liarbus.     j£m  no  mp  cbiltyen,  oo  teftaine  feeme  not  to  ctaue  of  mee, 
Do  not  betalte  pout  felueis  like  cafe  foi  baniljjt  toigbt0  to  bee. 
Cbougb  Minos  bee  tbat  ctuell  lunge  oio  banilb  Dedaius, 
ano  tbougb  pout  fatbet  i0  like  cafe  bp  tbi0  kinge  Arbaccus: 
get  mougbt  Us  Icarus  temaine  in  Creta  quietlp 
m\)zu  bee  Oio  paffe  W  tmtes  before  bee  pjaftiseo  to  tip. 
fcObetfo^e  mp  cbiltyen,  ceafe  pout  talfce,  oo  not  pout  fatbet  gteeue, 
ano  feeme  no  mo?e  in  anp  toife  fucb  queffion  footfb  to  meeue.      eQ 
ano  noto  fate  toell,  pout  ageo  fiet  no  longet  map  temaine, 
Jfo*  tbat  be  i0  call  into  ercile  ftom  pou  bis  cbiio^en  ttoaine. 

<ci>arifia.        ©  fatbet,  fitb  pou  toill  oepatt  ftom  bence  pout  felfe  alone, 
&taunt  tbat  31  map  oemauno  of  pou  but  onelp  queffion  one. 

<G>aliarbus.     Ctaue  tobat  tbou  toilt  ciarifia,  3[  gtaunt  tobat  fo  it  bee. 

jci>arifia.        cben  tobete  p  minoft  fo?  to  temaine  gooo  fatbet  fteto  to  mee. 
Ga>iiarbus.     fc&bete  to  temaine  Ciarifia,  of  ttutb  31  knoto  not  J. 
ci>arifia.        cben  oo  tbp  cbiltyen  tbee  commeno  tmto  tbe  beauen0  bit. 
Defietinge  tbem  moft  entitelp  to  Quelo  tbee  ftom  all  tooe, 

ano 


called  Common  condicions. 

7o  anD  bee  to  tbee  affifftance  goon  tobere  tbou  do  eft  rtue  0?  goe.  Exit. 

i£m  fartoel  fartoel  mp  cftiinjc  ttoain  pour  fier  mull  neeos  Depart  Galarib<us.> 
jFaretoell  J3D  fatber  to  tbee  againe  tbe  caufe  of  tbis  our  fmart.  Both  fp<eak.> 

Clarifia,  fit()  fOJttme  batb  tO  DS  ttltCb  lot  afltntl,  Sedmon<d.> 

31n  tt)i0  our  pjime  of  peres  to  part  from  parents  botb  fo  fcinDe, 
€be  one  being  bereft  of  life,  as  toas  tbe  goDs  necree, 
€be  otber  call  into  ercile,  a  baniftt  fenigbt  to  bee, 
mt  mull  contente  our  felues  toitb  all,  refraining  toonteD  care, 
3fn  bope  tbe  goos  fo?  ds  in  time  a  falue  toill  foone  prepare* 
Mberfo?e  filler  Clarifia,  let  ds  againe  retire 
so  (Unto  our  fatbers  manfion  plafe  31  bartelp  pou  Defire. 
(KHbere  toee  toill  liue  in  quiet  reft, 

l|)a  cruell  too?Ds  to  foone  erpieft.  clarifia. 

$>a  brotber  Sedmond,  boto  can  pou  liue  in  quiet  refit  one  Hap, 
anD  feinge  tbus  our  fatber  Deere  baniftt  from  ds  atoap. 
Leaue  of  tbis  fono  requeft  of  tbine,  let  pitp  pearce  tbp  bart, 
§>itb  nature  can  tbee  not  conftraine  to  toaile  tbp  fatbers  fmart. 
mw  iop  ftoulD  3!  obtaine,  alas,  if  31  a  p?inces  toere, 
Co  fee  mp  fatber  rainge  ab?oaD  in  cuntreies  Grange  fo?  feared 
J£>a  brotber  Sedmond  leaue  of  tbis  talfce  anD  blot  it  out  of  minoe 
90  anD  be  not  founo  to  fatber  tbine  obliuious  anD  tmfcinDe, 
'But  be  tbou  Gill  rigbt  fo?otoful,  ann  penfiue  fo?  W  fake, 

flBbp  fitter,  tobat  tbougbt  do  pou  mean  $  pou  tooulD  baue  me  take  Sedmond. 
€be  griefe  tbat  31  ftoulD  ta&e  fo?  bim  31  fee  it  toere  in  trnpne, 
ano  not  of  fo?ce  bim  to  refto?e  to  natiue  fopll  againe. 
ann  tberfo?e  mp  ftoeet  filler  Dear  refraine  once  mo?e  from  talfee, 
ana  come  let  ds  retire  toitb  fpeeD,  Let  us  llraigbt  borne  go  toalfee, 
ano  let  10s  toaile  no  mo?e  31  P?ap* 

%>tap.  within  Condic. 

^tap?  fc)berfO?e  U)OUlD  31  HBP?  Sedmond. 

100    Hell  tbou  tooo?fte  tbp  otone  Decap.  Condicios. 

Decagf  bOt»  Can  3  DO  fOf  Sedmond. 

Cb?OUgb  fO?Ce  Of  tf)P  fO.  Condicios. 

£Df  fof  come  filler  content  pee.  Sedmond. 

jftap,  flap  left  tbou  repent  tbee.  Condicios. 

fttBbp  ftoulD  31  repent  mee?  31  baue  not  offenoeo.  Sedmond. 

31f  tbat  tbou  retourne,  tbp  Deatb  is  p?etenDeD.  Condicios. 

a  Hi  ]p?e* 

71  (margin)  ftc — E.  C. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


<s>edmond.  j^etenoeo?  ga  BOtus,  to&at  f)aue  31  tione  t6at  31  ftoulo  Die  tfietfo^ 

Come  fo?tb  J  ftap  tobat  fo  tbou  be,  ann  Do  replp  no  mo?e. 

3[f  tbou  be  an  OBcco  o?  <£boft  in  like  cafe, 

Come  foojt!)  toitb  fpeeD  D^ato  nere  into  place.  no 

Conditios.        J  am  neitber  <£bofl,  Spirit,  Ccco,  no?  crier, 

3nD  neitber  fiflj  no;  flcflj,  but  balfe  a  true  knaue,  balfe  a  Iter. 
<s>edmond.      ©aft  at  tauntpng  toigbt  art  tbou  tbat  Doefl  in  Ccco0  fo?t  replp? 

!6p  like  tbou  art  fome  IParafite  come  our  talke  fo?  to  oefcrp. 
<c>ondic.        parafite?  nap  if  tbere  bee  no  remeop  but  neeD*  enter  31  muft,! 

31  toill  to  it  toitb  a  goon  beart  ann  lap  all  fear  in  tbc  Duff. 

f  ©ere  entretb  Conditions. 

ciarifia.  fc&bat  a&affer  Conditions,  tofiat  netoe0  at  court  tbij5  Dap  ? 

<^c>ondkios.     ©a  futcb  netoe0  tbat  31  am  afraio  toill  turne  to  pour  Decap. 
<s>edmond.     ftB&at  is  tbat  gooo  Conditions  J  p?ap  tftee  erp?efiTe. 
Condicios.        ij>a,  31  baue  toept  fo  tbat  fo?  faintneg  tbe  trutb  31  cannot  confeflfe.  no 
ciarifia.  ®ootJ  Conditions  leaue  of  tbp  toapling  anD  fteto  tbe  matter. 

Condicios.        ©a,  a  Dengance  of  all  trillaines  tbat  toouio  feeme  fo?  to  clatter. 

$>a,  tbat  fame  king  Arbaccus  ftp  parafit0  is  fo  alluren, 

Cbat  pour  ueatbes  all  reatjp  bee  batb  p?ocureD. 

3|f  tbat  pou  feeme  to  retire  backe  againe, 

W&z  king  batb  lapD  toaite  tbat  pou  botb  mougbt  be  taine, 

ann  fo  conuaieD  to  Come  p?ifon  atoap, 

(KHbere  be  not!)  intenti  to  tooo?ke  pour  Decap. 

9uoiH  all  futcb  Danger*  if  pou  toill  be  ruleo  bp  mee, 

§>eeme  not  to  retire  againe,  but  in  continent  ftp.  i3o 

3nD  fo  ftall  pou  be  fure  pour  liue0  for  to  faue 

Cbougb  tbep  amongff  tbem  pour  gooD0  cbance  to  baue. 

ann  31  toill  flp  toitb  pou  m  a  feruant  to  bee, 

3If  toitb  a  gooD  toill  pou  toillinglp  entertaine  mee. 
Sedmond.         geg  toitb  a  gooo  toill,  Conditions,  toitb  all  our  bart, 

ant)  tberfo?e  ffraittoaie0  let  us  bence  Depart, 
ciarifia.  ©a  cruell  kinge  Arbaccus  tbou,  ba  tiger  fierce  tmtame, 

Cbat  firfl  our  fatber0  baniftment  p?ocureoft  fo?  to  frame. 

3nn  tbat  tbou  art  not  pleafeo  toitb  all  but  feekeft  our  oecap. 

OJoe  too?tb  tbe  time  31  firfl  toa0  bo?ne,  to  fee  tbi0  oifmall  nap.     i4o 

Cuen  a0  tbe  toolfe,  o?  tpger  fierce  ootb  feeke  tbe  lambe  to  kill: 

%o  feekefl  tbou  botb  Dap  ana  nigbt  our  innocent  Moon  to  fpill. 

©a, 

114  By  like],  /.<?.,  Belike. 


called  Common  condicions. 

ipa  tbou  tbat  baniQicn  ball  our  lite  foj  no  offence  at  all, 

TBut  tfaougb  tbp  flattering  parafites  baft  tojougbt  bis  end  and  fat. 

a  Double  tooe  remaine  to  tbec,  6a  cruell  fringe  tmfeinoe, 

ffiraunt  Priams  tiate  to  fie  6is  Gate  tftat  (uc6  daies  bee  map  finde. 

and  fare  toell  noto  Arabia  foile,  fare  toell  our  natiue  land, 

JFaretoell  all  pompe  ann  pleafure  efee,  fo?  tuee  baue  taine  in  band 

Co  flp  from  pou,  toee  fo?ccn  are  fo?  fauegard  of  our  Hues, 
150  Co  raing  in  cutreies  flraing  abroad  tuber  fortune  foojtb  us  dtfues. 

ciarifia  leaue  of  pour  plaints  an  rutbfull  griefes  of  minde,       Sedmon<d.> 

and  come  let  us  go  rainge  a  tyoad  our  fatber  fo?  to  finde, 

Cfjat  toe  map  baue  bio  companp  in  tbis  our  banifljment. 
IPjoceede  pou  toben  pou  pleafe,  to  folloto  pou  3  am  content,    ciarifia. 

and  come  Conditions  toend  toitb  t)0  tbp  companp  let  t>s  baue*      exeunt* 
l&eepe  on  pour  toap  maddam,  pou  neede  it  not  to  craue.  Condicio<s.> 

l£>a  6a  Conditions,  q>  pou,  t6ere  are  ttoo  fojts  of  coditions  as  31  ges. 

JFo;  tbcre  are  good  and  eeuell  conditions  t6e  ttutb  to  confeflTe* 

and  to  tobicb  of  tbefe  ttoaine  tbinfec  pou  difpofed  am  31  i1 
160  3lf  31  ftould  fap  to  good  conditions  pou  toould  replp. 

©n  t6e  contrarp  fide,  if  J  ftould  fap  to  euell  31  fid  cleaue, 

C6en  euerp  3lacfe  toould  tbiutt  me  out  of  dojes  ftretgbt  6p  y  fleeuc. 

and  tberfo^e  foi  mp  otone  aouantage  beleeue  me  pou  map, 

as  nere  as  31  can  ile  ttfe  a  meoiocritie  6p  t6e  toap. 

9nd  Mediocritie  is  mp  name  t6oug6  condicions  t6ep  mee  call, 

U3ere  Itinde  to  dame  fortune  to  raife  and  to  let  fall. 

as  fo?  erperience,  it  teas  mp  c6ance  to  bleflTe  one  t6e  ot6er  dap, 

and  toitbin  ttoo  dapes  after  bee  toas  banged  out  of  tbe  toap. 

I6ut  to  ftoto  pou  tbe  cbiefe  caufe  noto  toberfo^e  and  to6p 
70  C6is  fenigbt  toitb  6is  famellp  are  faine  fo?  to  flp, 

31  toil   Cbere  are  certeine  parafites  6aunting  t6e  court  nig6t  9  dap 

32lit6  t»6om  t6is  fenigbt  Gaiiarbus  could  neuer  atoap. 

\c)cz  tbefe  parafites  perfued  tbjougb  bis  outtoard  apperance, 

itabicb  caufed  tbem  to  bate  bim  and  tberon  to^ougbt  bis  greeuance 

jFo?  tobp  tbep  accufed  bim  of  treafon  to  Arbaccus  tbe  feinge, 

Reporting  bim  to  bee  one  tbat  fougbt  tbe  realmes  tmdoinge. 

W^z  tobicb  be  neuer  toent  about,  but  tofee  flill  great  paine 

3ln  feinge  Arbaccus  bebalfe  tbe  realme  to  maintains 

lBut  31  am  tbe  arrants  tnllaine  tbat  pou  (ball  finde  0?  fee, 

JFO! 

151  an],  i.e.y  and. 


A  pleafant  comedy. 


jFo?  tfte  baniftment  of  Galiarbus  toas  all  longe  of  mee.  iso 

JFo?  fecretlp  J  fet  mee  aparafite  bim  to  accufe, 

Cbat  bee  tbe  common  mcaltb  fougbt  to  abufe. 

J13oto  bao  31  touin  tbe  king  before,  boto,  ano  in  tobat  fo?t 

€be  accufacion  being  ten,  tbat  be  toouio  report 

Cben  flept  31  to  Galiarbus,  ano  rounoeo  bim  in  tbe  eare, 

taping  if  be  toouio  put  f>  matter  into  mp  banos  be  neoe  not  feare. 

J13oto  be  being  contenteo,  31  toent  to  tbe  fcinge  bp  ano  bp, 

ano  bio  bim  aflie  if  bee  toere  fo  content,  ano  bee  anftoereo  1. 

Cbinfeing  tbe  king  afkeo  bim  if  bee  toouio  tbat  31  in  place 

§>boulo  anftoere  againfl  bi$  accufers  in  biz  cafe.  190 

TBut  31  ban  touloe  tbe  Iting  futcb  a  tale  in  bis  bebalfe  before, 

Cbat  in  faitb  bee  neeoe  not  many  accufers  mo?e. 

ano  fo  upon  bis  one  anftoere  be  toas  conoemneo  to  Op. 

Cben  31  like  a  craftp  knaue,  ffept  fo?tb  bp  ano  bp, 

IDeBering  tbe  kinge  not  to  put  bim  to  oeatb  out  of  banD : 

TBut  fo?  fo  fmall  offence  to  baniflb  bim  tbe  lano. 

€be  knigbt  bering  mee  to  fpake  fo  in  bte  caufe, 

Cooke  mee  fo?  bis  fpeciall  freeno  toitbout  fattber  paufe. 

ano  tberon  tbe  Itinge  appointeo  bim  a  oap  bp  ano  bp 

Co  oepart  tbe  lano,  but  taken  after  tbat  oap,  be  sboulo  op.         200 

j|3oto  tbe  kinge  on  tbe  otber  floe,  perfeuinge  mp  craftp  fetcb, 

31f  bee  coulo  baue  taken  me  31  knoto  tbat  J  ftoulo  ftretcb* 

ano  fo  in  faitb  tbere  is  no  mo?e  cumming  to  tbe  court  fo?  mee, 

1But  bote  fap  pou,  baue  not  31  ueuifo  toell  to  baue  companp? 

jFo?  tbe  Itinge  tbougbt  as  mutcb  of  tbefe  as  of  bis  tieatb  31  am  fure, 

iBut  onelp  to  baue  tbeir  companp  tbis  be  31  trio  procure. 

Cuft,  tbis  is  but  a  pece  of  mp  conoitions  b)>  tbe  toap. 

I6ut  bp  pour  leaue  31  toill  t)fe  ameopocritie  tobofoeuer  faies  nap. 

©Hell,  tbere  is  no  remeop,  31  mufl  after  tbe  tbeir  companp  to  baue 

JFo?  ]  am  fure  tbat  is  all  tbat  tbep  feeme  fo?  to  craue.        Exit.  210 

% $>ere  enter.  3.  Cinkers,  Shifte,  Drifte, 
ano  Vnthrifte,  §>inginge. 

The  tink-  ^ap  tiflp  toftp  tinkers  gooo  fellotoes  tbep  bee, 

ers  fonge.  jn  flopping  of  one  bole  tbep  We  to  make  tb?ee. 

Come 

197  fpake],  i.e.y  fpeak.  206  he],  qy.  lie. 


called  Common  condicions. 

r;£>me  merely  foojtl)  mates,  and  let  tlje  toojlde  toagge, 
Cljougl)  our  trade  do decapour  mfrtft  fljall  augments 
Ztye  tfnlterlp  trade  toee  geue  it  fte  bagge, 
JLifte  beggers  toee  If  ue  and  toant  to  pap  rent* 
Yet  toee  neuer  ifn  trudging  from  cftfe  to  totone, 
4Dur  jammers  on  tf)e  ftettels  bottomes  do  rtnge : 
Yet  toe  fcarfe  get  letber  pfltrfjes  toftl)  out  clofte  o?  goton, 
zzo  jffe  on  tins  trade  tUat  no  mo?e  gafne  totll  bjfnge* 
$ap  tf  fip  toflp  Cfnfters  good  ftllotoes  tbep  bee* 
3Jn  flopping  of  one  tjole  tljep  Me  to  mafte  ti)?ee* 

Stofft  l)e  tof  tf)  ftfftfng  l)atf)  almofl  mard  all, 
$e  can  not  be  trufled  tn  no  ftfnde  of  place: 
$ o?  manp  olde  things  into  I)t0  budgft  dotf)  fall, 
€!)at  oft  tune  l)e  feared)  to  flioto  fbjtf)  i)fs  face. 
#ots,  Saucers,  Candf  Iflfcfts,  and  §>cumrners  fteOUe, 
3ire  trufl  top  and  clofelp  lapd  into  tt)e  pacfte: 
2ltoap  l)ee  6tes  qui cftlp  and  dares  not  abfde, 
23o  £>ttttts  bandogge  dotf)  beare  l)f6  tooles  on  l)fs  bacfte* 
$ap  tfflp  toflp,  Cfnfters  good  fellotoes  toe  bee, 
toee  flop  one  $  mafte  ttoo,  toee  flop  ttoo  and  mafte  tl)?ee. 

J12ap  pet  rafter  SDrfft  fs  too?tf)p  of  blame, 
Cfjat  ts  oft  tfmes  djfuen  to  a  toeafte  flap. 
Co  rob,  ftf  ll,  and  ipof  le,  l)e  taftetl)  no  flwme, 
2D?f  uen  fo?  to  get  ft,  and  to  Ijaue  no  nap 
2lnd  imtftjfft  agafne  confumes  it  as  flat 
aaieemen,  dfft  and  djfnfte,  lets  l)fm  notfnng  fceepe: 
2lnd  tberfoje  all  toee  tl)?ee  Ijaue  met  together  pat, 
Ho  Co  Venture  a  robbfng,  to  plap  noto  bo  peepe* 
$ap  tfflp  toflp,  Cfnfters  good  fellotoes  tf)ep  bee, 
Cl)ep  flop  one  i)ole,  mafte  ttoo  and  flop  ttoo  $  mafee  tfee* 
m. tyvp 

The  Chat/worth  copy  of  the  play  begins  at  this  page  {line  213),  but  the  firjl  leaf  is 
much  torn.  228  the  packe],  packe,  Ch. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


Shift.  H<*£p  liuelp,  ftp  gogs  tilouti  toee  tinkers  ate  at  a  man  flap,    (Dap 

JFo?  tobe  toe  are  in  §  dtp,  tbere  is  notbing  tut  tinfeel  ttnfee  al  § 

Drift.  ann  ftp  gogs  tilouD  Shift,  3|  can  not  go  but  mp  ftaflbn  muft  tang: 

ann  ftp  pour  leaue  if  31  ban  not  neuif  n  tbis  u?ift,  31  mougbt  go  bang. 
<v>nthrift.         ann  ftp  bis  toouns  mp  jailers  31  am  in  £  fame  flate  pou  ttoain  be 

T5ut  tobe  folfee  ftjing  tbeir  itettels  to  men  foi  one  bole  31  make  tb*ee 

TBut  mp  mailers  toot  pou  tobat?  31bearonetoes  about  $  court  tbis 

Cbat  tbere  is  a  gentleman  toitb  a  Lanp  gone  atoap,  (nap  z5o 

ann  baue  toitb  tbem  a  title  parafite,  full  of  monp  ant)  quoine. 

1Bp  gogs  ftloun  let  ns  leaue  of  tinfeing  ann  folioto  tbem  to  purloine. 

jFq?  tbe  littell  Itnaue  batb  got  it  toitb  cortging,  ann  telling  of  tales. 

ann  tberfoje  ftp  mp  confent  toitb  bis  quoine  toe  toil  fill  our  males. 
<Sh>ift.  jFeloto  Vnthrift  ftp  gogs  ftlouti  bere  i?i  mp  bann  on  £  contiicion, 

9Bee  toil  take  atoap  tbeir  purfes  ann  fap  toe  no  it  ftp  commiflion. 

TBut  ftp  bis  toounos,  altbougb  31  baue  no  commiflion  to  ftotoe 

31  intenn  not  to  let  tbem  part  toitb  tbeir  purfes  31  trotoe. 
<D>Hft.  a  commiftioner  gogs  ftloun  tobo  mane  a  commiftoner  of  pou? 

3If  p  baue  no  tetter  anftoer  at  tbe  ftar  p  toilt  bange  3  tel  tbee  treto.  260 
<Sh>ift.  ©ang  pou  tinfcerlp  flaue?  Shift  toil  fcape  tobe  Drift  ftalfte  bagen 

?v>nthrift.        Cufb  mp  maflers  pou  are  ftotfte  as  goon  as  euer  ttoangen, 
<D>rift.  31  pjap  tbee,  goon  Vnthrift  flann  ftacfe,  u  let  me  trp  toitb  p  flaue. 

<sh>ift.  31f  tbou  narefl  3Ile  lap  mp  bammer  on  pour  pate  pou  fenaue. 

?v>nthrift.        s^p  maflers  leaue  of  pour  ftjatoling  tbus  one  toitb  an  otber* 
<D>rift.  15$  gogs  ftloun  31  cannot  boio  mp  banns  $  if  bee  toere  mp  ft^otber. 

j?ou  boto?efun  TBanfterp  flaue,  come  againe  ann  tbou  nare. 
<Sh>ift.  TBp  bis  toouns,  to  burle  mp  feettel  at  tbp  ben  31  take  no  great  care 

<D>rift.  ann  if  tbou  burle  tbine,  tbinfee  not  but  againe 

IBotb  ffeillet,  ftaflon,  ann  bamer  ftall  at  th^>  ben  amaine.  27o 

ann  tberfo^e  ftp  gogs  ftloun  burle  ann  tbou  nare. 
<^S>hift.  3|f  tbou  no  begin,  tben  bange  mee  ann  31  (pare, 

<v>nthrift.         ©Hell  tben  mp  maflers  to  it  toitb  a  goon  toill,  ann  neuer  care* 
<Th>ey  fight,  ann  31  toill  plap  on  mp  feettell  as  tbougb  31  toere  a  tyumflare. 

^>tap,  flap,  no  mo?e  ft^atoling  noto  one  toitb  anotben 
<s>hift.  T6p  gogs  ftloun  Drift,  3[ie  ftjeafee  pour  nonnell  if  pou  toere  mp 

ann  tbou  fte  a  boneft  feiloto  Thrift  let  ns  but  trp  (ftjotber. 

<D>rift.  Come  ann  tbou  nare,  foi  31  pas  not  a  turn  fo?  tbee  31. 

<v>nthrift.        Heaue  of  tbis  tyatoling  mp  matters,  ann  beare  tobat  31  ftall  fap. 

Cbe  <£enteiman  toitb  bis  lanp  intenn  to  come  tbis  toap,  28o 

247  ye],  the  Ch.  248  med],  mende,  Ch.    Throughout  the  play, 

Ch.  employs  the  uncontracled  form  in  nearly  all  fuch  cafes;  e.g.,  thou — thou  (260), 
when — hanged  (261).  249  you],  ye,  Ch.  254  quoine],  coigne,  Ch. 

263  y'],  the,  Ch.  274  Drumflaer,  Ch.  279  ends  page  in  Ch. 


called  Common  condicions. 

9nD  tberfo^e  let  tos  tie  all  in  one  minoe,  ano  agre  all  togetber, 

jFo?  31  fenoto  it  toill  not  tie  long  01  t&ep  come  betber. 

3nD  tbetfo^e  let  us  tie  packing  bence,  anD  in  a  bulb  Ip, 

Glntill  tbep  tie  alreaDp  to  pas  a  long  berebp. 

ano  toben  tbep  tftinfee  tbemfelues  in  tbe  toooo  moll  Cured  to  tiee: 

Cbeir  purfes  toee  toill  bee  Co  bolDe  as  ftare  bettoirt  ds  tb?ee, 

fcoto  fap  pou  mp  mailers  boto  like  pou  tbis  Deuife? 

16p  gogs  blouo  felloto  tbiift  tbou  act  ercellent  toife.  Shift. 

2Bell  felloto  Djift  becaufe  of  our  bufines  31  tbee  fojgiue, 
290  ano  3[le  make  tbee  amenos  ano  toe  botb  fkape  tbe  gallons  $  liue* 

Shift  tbis  is  pour  knauerp  if  pou  tyeake  ones  ben  toitb  a  pan,   Drift, 
pou  toill  giue  bim  a  plainer  to  bele  it  againe  if  pou  can. 
OBell  bere  is  mp  bano,  31  foigiue  tbee  toitb  all  mp  bart, 

ftiQell  come  on  tben,  in  continent  letDs  from  bence  Depart. 

1F  8>ere  enter,  Sedmond  toitb  Clarifia 
anO  Condicions  OUt  Of  tbe  toOOD. 

TTl&e  fillp  traueiler  tbat  is  atacbti  tbjougb  toerieD  tople, 

ano  fo#  tfoougb  meare  necetfitp  to  trace  from  natiue  fople, 
Cbougb  toerieo  at  bis  iournies  eno  toitb  painfull  traueill  pall: 
3ls  glao  in  bart  be  batb  attainD  bis  iournies  eno  at  lad, 
%o  toe  beinge  poiTed  as  noto  toitb  toerieo  toile  like  cafe, 

300  s$ud  liue  in  bope  all  traueill  pad  to  finoe  a  reding  place* 
fcftberfoje  gooo  fider  be  of  cbere  cad  care  from  out  pour  minoe, 
ano  liue  in  bope  all  fojotoes  pad  our  fatber  out  to  finoe. 
J?ou  fee  tbe  cbirpping  biros  beginnes  pou  melloDp  to  make, 
TBut  pou  tmgrateful  tmto  tbem  tbeir  pleafant  Doice  fotfake. 
gou  fee  tbe  jBigbtingall  alfo,  toitb  ftoeete  ano  pleafant  lap, 
§>ounD  fo?tb  ber  Doice  in  cberping  toife,  to  banift  care  atoap* 
pou  fee  oame  Tellus  ftee,  toitb  mantell  fteU  ano  greene, 
jFo?  to  oifplap  euerp  tobere  mod  cumlp  to  be  feene. 
gou  fee  Dame  Flora  (bee,  toitb  flotoers  fredi  ano  gape 

310  TBotb  bere  ano  tbere  anD  euerp  tobere  ber  banners  to  Difplap, 
ftHberfc^e  gooD  fider  cad  of  care,  abieft  tbis  griefe  of  minoe, 
3ln  bope  tbe  goos  fo?  tbis  our  foje  a  falue  no  Doubt  toill  finoe. 

l&otber  Sedmond,  tbe  traueiler  Deferuetb  place  of  red, 
3ln  tbat  bee  taken  batb  futcb  paines  as  pou  before  erpjed. 
TBut  tyotber  toee  are  no  traueillers  tbat  tifetb  Dap  ^  Dap, 

IB  ft 


Shift. 
Exeunt 
omnes. 
Sedmon^d.^ 


Clariiia. 


Co 


285  them  felues,  Ch.  294  incontinent,  Ch. 

295  is],  so  Malone ;  botb  quartos  read  vs. 

301  good  fifter — chere],  fifter — good  chere,  Ch.  314  ends  page  in  Ch. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


Co  rainge  atyoati  to  foraine  HanOS  to  trace  tfte  beaten  toap. 
flHee  ate  conftraino  tbjougb  tierp  fo^ce  to  ftp  from  natiue  fople, 
eKHee  are  compelo  tbjougb  crueltp  to  tinner  tafee  tbis  toile. 
Cbe  traueiller  map  feeepe  tbe  toap  tbat  lifees  bim  beft  to  go* 
Witt  are  conftrainti  to  Qnototi  our  felues  in  toooos  fo?  feare  of  fo.  3zo 
Cben  bjotber  tell  me  tobetber  be  o?  toe  uo  tafee  moft  paine, 
Confioering  toben  be  pleafe  be  map  returne  to  borne  againe? 
gou  fap  tbe  jRigbtingall  alfo  toitb  ftoeete  ano  pleafant  lap, 
Dotb  fount)  bet  notes  in  cbirpinge  toife  to  bantlb  care  atoap. 
ftHbat  pleafure  map  toee  tafee  in  ber  o?  in  queene  Flora  Uee? 
©Hbat  pleafure  in  name  Telius  efee  tbinfee  pou  fo?  t>s  to  bee? 
jSo  no  goon  b^otber  Sedmond,  tbeir  pleaCant  nopfe  tbep  mafee, 
aBoulo  ratber  caufe  me  as  31  am  all  pleafure  to  fotfafee. 
©Hbat  pleafure  ftouin  toe  tafee  bjotber,  it  all  tbe  biros  in  fielo 
(Klere  p^efent  bere  at  inftance  noto  tbeir  barmonp  to  peelo  ?         33o 
Cbeir  pleafat  noice  renetoes  mp  care,  tbeir  ftoete  meioDious  fouo 
IDotb  caufe  me  noto  toitb  tricfeling  teares  in  fojrotoes  to  abouno. 
$01  tbinfeing  on  tbe  pleafures  noto  tbat  card  in  time  toe  ban : 
Dotb  caufe  me  noto  to  pine  fo?  too  tober  barttoouio  baue  meglao 
ano  tberfo?e  fyotber  leaue  of  talfee,  in  name  pou  feeme  to  p?ate, 
ji3ot  all  tbe  talfee  pou  titter  can  mp  fojrotoes  can  abate* 
jFtom  futcb  tmine  allegations,  goon  fyotber  feeme  to  flap. 

Condi.         U3ap  noble  gentelman  tmoer  pour  co^reftion  if  31  map, 
31  baue  a  toootfi  o?  ttoo  toitb  pour  filler  bp  tbe  toap. 
^oto  fap  pou  Haop  ciarifia,  are  pou  lifee  cafe  contented  34o 

ciarifia.        Condicions  if  tbou  fpeafee  tbp  minoe  it  Iball  not  bee  repenteo. 

Condi.         Cben  in  pour  quarrell  againfl  pour  fyotber  31  minoe  to  bjeafee 
^o  tbat  toitb  licence  gentleman  pou  toil  giue  me  leaue  to  fpeafee. 

Sedmond.     (KBitb  a  goon  toill  Conditions,  fpeafee  fo?tb  tobat  is  tbp  minoe. 

Conditios.     Cben  in  faitb  3lie  pap  fome  borne  anon  in  tbeir  rigbt  feinoe. 

3t  is  geuen  to  toeemen  to  be  obfeure  $  ful  of  fimp^ietp  bp  tbe  toap 

IP^offer  tbem  tbe  tbing  tbep  moft  oefier  tbep  toolo  it  oenap. 

Cbep  are  fo  full  of  fleigbts  ano  fetcbes  tbat  fcarce  tbe  jFor  bee, 

3in  euerp  poinft  toitb  toeemen  map  fcarce  compared  bee, 

jFo?  toben  men  p?ap  tbep  toill  oenap,  o?  toben  men  moft  oefire :     35o 

Cben  marfee  me  a  tooman  die  isi  foncft  ftirreo  unto  ire. 

Cbeir  beos  are  fantafticall  ano  full  of  toarietp  ftrange, 

Hike 

316  to  foraine],  in  foraine,  Ch.  318  vndertake,  Ch.  338  your,  om.  Ch. 

351  vnto],  to,  Ch.  351  ends  page  in  Ch. 


called  Common  condicions. 

Like  to  tbe  8$oone  tobofe  operation  it  is  often  times  to  change. 
ant)  bp  pout  leaue  botofoeuet  it  goes  tbe  maftctp  tbep  nutft  baue, 
3ln  euetp  tefpeft  o?  in  ougbt  tbat  tbep  feeme  fo?  to  ctaue. 
15ut  er^aoam,  31  Dope  pott  toill  inpute  no  blame  tmto  mee, 
Confioeting  pou  ate  a  mapoen,  ann  full  of  imbpcillitp. 

a  toell  pallet  Conditions,  is  tbis  mp  patt  pou  take  fo  f 

©ifftefle  ciarifia,  to  mp  poo?e  tbe  ttutb  3  mull  Iboto. 
36o    ©f  ttutb  Conditions  tbe  ttutb  tbou  bafl  toloe 

J13ap  ano  fyall  pleaCe  pou  31  am  fome  tobat  feminatiue, 
iFo?  it  tbete  be  anp  tbing  in  minoe  out  31  mull  it  n?iue. 

tDoton  toitb  tbem  all  fo?  futelp  tbep  Hall  Die, 

ab  cruell  cbance,  goon  b?otbet  flp. 

flftlbp  tobete  is  tbe  otbet  tbat  toas  in  tbeit  companp? 
15p  gogs  blotto  minks  bee  ftal  bie  bis:  flping  full  Oeare. 

ano  in  faitb  pou  tuifein  faceo  knaue,  ete  pou  patt  ftom  bence, 
3[le  be  fo  bolOe  as  niue  in  pout  pocket  to  (bate  out  pout  pence. 

JI3ap  gentelmen  Cinkets,  be  goon  unto  as  ttoaine. 
370     s^ake  an  eno,  take  atoap  all  tbep  baue  31  fap  once  againe. 

ab  ctuell  luckles  cbaunce  alas,  ab  fortune  tbou  nnfute, 
Cbat  canfl  in  tutning  of  tbp  tobeele  Gill  caufe  tos  to  enoute 
§>utcb  cbangen  beapjs  of  tooes  (alas)  as  tongue  cannot  crpjcirc: 
jFo?  tobp  31  fee  in  tmpne  it  is  as  noto  to  feeke  teo?etTe. 
£&betfo?e  pou  ctuell  €p?ants  tb?ee,  oifpatcbe  mp  life  in  baile, 
jFo?  tobp  31  3lop  no  longet  life  futcb  beapes  of  gteif  a  tafte. 

Culb  nifpatcb,  ano  toben  pou  baue  none,  binoe  bet  fall  to  tb/s  ttee. 
iLeall  toben  p  toe  ate  gone  flbe  make  an  up?o?e,  ano  toe  petfueo  bee 

Come  on  Hanp,  fall  to  tbis  tree,  toe  inteno  pou  to  binoe. 
380  ano  toitb  pout  otone  banocatcbet  pout  eies  toee  toill  blinne. 

^0  in  faitb  minks  pou  ate  fad  noto  fo?  (Raping  atoap, 

a  too  be  to  tbe  time  toben  firft  31  fato  tbis  luckles  nap. 

9Bbp  tobat  ftall  toe  no  toitb  bim  by  gogs  bloun  I  can  not  neuife 
Crcept  toe  ftouin  fet  bim  to  kepe  ctotoes,  $  picke  out  botb  bis  eies. 

ab  of  all  loues  baue  companion  on  mee  ano  fetue  me  not  fo. 
©ete  pe  f  ano  pou  can  not  tell  tobat  to  00  toitb  mee,  tben  let  mee  go. 
€be  niuell  a  penp  baue  3!,  ann  pou  toill  bang  me  on  tbis  ttee. 

$ogs  bloun  ann  toell  rapn,  fo?  be  batb  ten  bi^  otone  ocmnie. 

Q)a,  toill  pou  let  me  go*  in  goon  faitb  tbanke  pou  31  no, 
390    JI2ap,  Gap  a  tobile,  toe  tell  tbee  not  fo, 

354  maftery],  maftcry,  E.  C. :  mafterie,  Ch.  365  their],  your,  Ch. 

370  an],y«  Ch.\  and,  E.  C.  381  now,  om.  Ch.  385  Ah],  Oh,  Ch. 

388  ends  page  in  Ch. 


Ciarifia. 
Condic^ions.^ 
Sedmo^nd.^ 
Condic<lons.^ 

Shift. 

Ciarifia. 

Drift. 

Thrift. 

Condi  t^ions.^ 

Shift. 

Ciarifia. 


Drifte. 

Shift. 

Thrifte. 
Ciarifia. 
Thrifte. 

Condit^ions.^ 


Shifte. 

Condit^ions.^ 

Drifte. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


i 


Stoi  tbou  art  like  noto  to  bang  on  tbis  tree* 
<c>ondicios     fl)a  ano  tbere  be  no  remeop  but  bangeo  31  muft  bee 

Dne  of  pou  bange  before  to  ftoto  boto  toell  it  toill  become  mee. 
T^hrifte.        Co  bang  tbee  o?  futcb  as  tbou  art,  toe  tbinke  it  but  a  fpo*t. 
C>onditios      Call  not  atoap  a  proper  poung  man  in  futcb  a  kinoe  of  fojt. 
^sh>ifte.  cuft  fcifpatcb  ant)  bange  bim  ftraigbt  out  of  tbe  toap. 

<C>ondicios      i^a  gooo  gentelman  Cinker,  31  befeecb  pou  noto  flap, 

ffllbat  meane  pou  bp  bis  toounos  31  baue  beraieD  mp  felf  out  of  crp 
<"D>rift.  OTbetber  tbou  bad  o?  bad  not  tbou  Halt  furelp  op. 

<c>ondicios     $>a  ano  tbere  be  no  remeop  but  tbat  neeos  bang  31  mufl,         4oo 

<&iuz  me  tbe  baiter  3|le  to  it  mp  felfe  and  lap  all  care  in  tbe  Dull. 
<T>hrifte.        3[  am  fure  tbou  meaneft  not  to  bange  toitbout  belpe  of  a  freeno i 
<^c>oditions      3|(j  not  as  gooo  to  bang  mp  felfe  as  anotber  bale  tbe  eno? 
<s>hift.  TBp  gogs  blouo  mp  jailers  ano  bee  toill  toe  are  all  content, 

JFo?  tben  in  time  foj  banging  bim  toe  neeoe  not  repent. 

mell  Drift  giue  tbe  baiter  unto  tbe  elfe. 
<C>onditios      5>a  toas  tbere  euer  littell  knaue  Ojiuen  to  bang  bimfelfe? 

H3ap  31  mull  alfo  requeft  pour  apo  to  belpe  me  into  tbe  tree, 
<D>rifte.         jftap  if  tbou  lacke  anp  belpe,  tben  bange  tos  all  tbsee. 

%>o  lato  noto  Oifpatcb,  anD  toitb  fpeeoe  make  an  enoe,  4io 

<c>onditios     ©Hbat  to  no?  Drift,  agarp  to  bang  tbp  felf 

<C>onditios.     jRap  bp  pour  leaue  tbat  is  moje  tben  31  &o  inteno. 
<T>hrift.         mbv  31  am  fure  tbou  intenoeft  not  to  ferue  tis  in  fucb  Co^tf 
<c>onditios  mttz  not  bee  man  tooulo  bang  bimtelf  to  ftoto  tb?ee  tinkers  fpo?tf 
<D>rift.  z&bv  3(  am  fure  to  ferue  tos  fo,  tbou  ooft  not  intend? 

<C>ondit.  a  mao  foole  bee  toere  tooulo  liefperatlp  Op  anti  neuer  OiO  offeno, 
<D>rifte.  T5p  gogs  blouo  Jle  teare  bim  ootone  oi  els  3lle  ^ztz  mp  life. 

<C>ondit.  TBacke  againe  oi  ile  be  fo  boulO  as  pare  pour  nails  to  mp  knife. 
<T>hrifte.  jftap  looke  mp  matters  tbe  flaue  lookes  like  an  otole  in  a  tree, 
<s>hifte.  i3ap  bee  lookes  like  a  craftp  knaue  beleeue  mee.       u  4*o 

<D>rift.  TBp  gogs  blouo  Shift  be  lookes  like  a  maoge  botolet  as  p  baft  faio 

TBp  tbe  mas  if  31  ban  mp  boto  ano  boult  bere  bee  ftouio  be  papo. 

<C>ondi.  |J)alO,  balO  balO,  bOtoe.  holoweth  in  the  tree. 

<T>hrift.         &&bv,  tobat  oooft  tbou  meane  to  bolloto  in  tbe  tree? 
<c>ondi.  OBbat  no  31  meane  marp  to  baue  moje  companp  come  to  mee. 

<s>hifte.  iBp  gogs  blouo  mp  maflers  toe  toere  not  beft  loger  bece  to  flap 

<A>mbo.      3|  tbinke  toas  neuer  futcb  a  craftp  knaue  before  tbis  nap.    Exeunt. 

are 


410  now],  not,  Cb.  425  ends  page  in  Ch. 

427  margin^  Ambo,  Cb.:  <(A]>mob,  E.  C. 


called  Common  condicions. 

ate  tbep  all  gone?  fm  jm  6a,  toelfate  olue  fljift  at  a  neeoe,        Condic<ions.> 
TBp  bis  toounoes  ban  |  not  Deuifeu  tbis  31  bao  bangeo  inoeeue. 
43o  Cinfeets  (quotb  pou)  tinfce  mee  no  tinfes  31le  rneunel  tfi  tbe  no  moje 
31  t&infce  toas  neuet  fenaue  fo  t)feD  bj>  a  compante  of  tinkers  before 
TBy  pout  leaue  3lle  be  fo  bourn  as  to  loofcc  about  me  ano  fpp, 
Leall  anp  fenaues  fo?  mp  cumming  ootone  in  ambuft  no  Ip. 
'Bp  pout  licence  31  mltttie  not  to  p^eacbe  longet  in  tbis  ttee. 
a^p  tinfcetlp  flaues  ate  paciteu  bence  as;  fat  as  31  map  tee, 
^a,  mp  goon  mtfltes  ciarifia,  3  am  fog?  to  fe  pou  at  tbis  flap, 
31  frill  tmbinoe  pou  tbat  toe  map  in  all  tbe  bafle  ttuoge  atoap. 
9no  Laop  it  is  not  befl  foi  tis  in  Arabia  longet  to  tatp, 
Seeing  tbat  fortune  in  euetp  tefpeft  againft  tis  flill  ootb  tmtie. 
440  jFo?  feeing  free  ate  fo  np  tbe  fea  tbat  toee  map  pas  in  one  Hap 
Cleane  ouet  tbe  fea  to  Phrygia,  31  toouio  not  toilb  toee  flap 
ftObeteas  noto  pout  goon  fatbet  fit  Gaiiarbus  is, 
3no  of  pout  bjotbet  3[  toattant  pou  toee  tbete  ftall  not  miffe. 

223el,  fitb  neeostoee  mull,  31  am  content  to  fortunes  beck  to  bote  ciarifi<a.> 
Who  ftotoes  bet  felf  an  enemie  to  me  poo^e  tojetcbe  as  nolo, 
Wbtxzfoiz  a  oeto  Arabia  fople,  fattoell  mp  b^otbet  oeate, 
3ft  boutles  is,  31  fee,  as  note  in  toooos  to  feefee  tbee  beate* 

mtil  Haop,  toitbout  anp  fattbet  talke  let  tis  atoap.  Condic. 

IP^oceeoe  Condicions,  31  minoe  not  bete  in  oanget  longe  to  flap,  ciarifia. 

Exeunt. 

f  $>ete  enttetb  Sedmond  toaplpng. 
450  nrtyz  topgbt  tbat  ban  a  3luell  fap?e  ano  b^>  miffotfune  fttainge,    Sedmond. 
Cfoougb  negligence  batb  lofl  tbe  fame,  as  be  atyooe  oio  tainge, 

€be  ietoell  bepng  none  of  W,  but  ones  tbat  toas  W  fteeno, 

(RHbo  oio  tbz  fame  beetafce  to  bint  ftom  loffes  to  oefenO: 

Jl3oto  being  lofl,  tbiougb  negligence  of  bim  tbat  kept  tbe  fame, 

flBbat  Double  gtetf  tbinfee  pou  Uotb  be  toitbin  bi&  bjefl  flil  frame? 

s©p  fiflet  Uee  tbz  ietoell  i^  tobom  fatbet  gaue  to  mee 

jfo*  to  p^efetue  ftom  ctuell  foe,  toitbin  mp  gatoe  to  bee. 

I6ut  31  (alas)  tbjougb  negligence  baue  lofl  mp  filler  oeete 

Cbiougb  ctuell  tptants  futious  fojce  toitbin  tbis  fo^eft  beete, 
460  I5ut  ba  mp  fiflet,  is  tbis  tbp  cbance  tbat  fortune  batb  affinoe t 

a^uft  tbou  alas  to  tap  in  peelo?  mufl  tfjou  noto  tefl  bebinoe? 

iba,  tobp  Dif  31  beetafee  to  fligbt  tbe  coupes  tbat  liues  in  tbiallt 

wm 

428  well  fare,  Ch.      445  Who],  both  quartos  print  Whom.      461  ends  page  in  Ch. 
462  did  I],  did  I  not  in  both  quartos  from  influence  of  following  line. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


mbv  tiin  31  not  toitb  tbee  like  cafe  into  tbeir  clutcbes  fallf 
(KEoulo  goos  Lucina  (be  tDttt)  Ibatpe  ann  crookeo  crabben  knife, 
Wf)zn  firft  31  cam  into  tbis  toojio  ban  enn  mp  tottall  life* 
TBut  (itb  it  teas  not  nefiinie,  no?  pet  tbe  gons  Decree: 
(Hlitb  tbis  moft  toretcbcn  Gate  (alas)  31  muft  contenteo  bee. 
16ut  faretoell  noto  mp  Courflers  braue,  atrappeo  to  tbe  gtouno, 
jfaretoell  aneto  all  pleafure  eke,  toitb  cumlp  ^aufee  ann  l^ouno. 
jFaretoell  pe  jftobels  all,  faretoell  ecfte  aparfiall  knigbt,  47o 

JFaretoell  pe  famous  Haoies  all,  in  tobom  31  ntn  neligbt. 

8  neto  mp  natiue  fople,  a  neto  Arbaccus  kpnge, 

9  neto  ecbe  toigbt,  ahn  e^arfiall  knigbt,  a  neto  ecbe  liupng  tbpnge. 
a  neto  mp  toofull  ©ier,  ann  differ  in  like  cafe, 

OT&om  neuer  31  ftall  fee  agapne,  ecbe  otber  to  embrace: 
JFor  noto  31  toill  betake  mp  felfe  a  toantypng  knigbt  to  bee. 
3lnto  fome  ftraunge  %  fojrapne  lano  tbeir  cumlp  guife  to  fee*    Exit 

f  ^ete  enttett)  Galiarbus  OUt  Of  Phrygia. 

\\^5)o  can  but  fmple  ann  laugb  to  fee  tbe  ftate  of  jFojtune  fteef 
Galiarbus.        fcftlbo  can  oeuife  in  rigbtift  toife,  to  peeine  neto  pjaife  to  tbee:* 

i£a  <fcoonifle  p  tobofe  countnance  flraunge  ootb  eb  %  floto  ecbe  nap,  48o 

Sometimes  tbou  ooeft  reffo^e  to  toealtb,  ann  fometime  to  necap. 

3s  pjoofe  is  plapnlp  feene  b^  mee,  tbougb  baniftt  toigbt  31  toas, 

Cbou  baft  reftojoe  to  toealtb  agapne,  far  better  in  ecbe  cafe. 

Cbougb  kpnge  Arbaccus  bee,  toitball  bis  courtlp  trapne, 

ann  eke  bis  route  of  Parafites,  Oin  boloe  mee  in  oifDapne: 

get  tbiougb  tbp  turnpng  tobeel,  ann  variable  cbapnge, 

()aft  mee  reflo^n  to  toealtb  agapne  in  fo^apne  countreis  ftrapnge. 

©oto  ftoulo  31  nulp  laton  pour  names  ©  beauenlp  potoers  fo?  tbis? 

8)oto  ftouin  toee  giue  pou  balf  tbe  pjapfe  tbat  pou  neferue  31toisf 

§>itb  tfjat  our  mojtall  tongue  unable  is  to  ftotoe  49o 

&be  pjapfes  tfjat  pou  ougbt  to  baue,  tobicb  fo?  our  part  toee  otoe, 

Galiarbus  (ball  not  ceafe  tobilft  life  bee  notb  eniope: 

3ln  rigbtift  toife  be  can  oeuife  pour  p^apfes  to  implope. 

jFo?  tobp,  tbougb  31  but  knigbt  in  Arabia  oin  remapne: 

31t  toas  mp  cbaunce  ann  fortune  goon  bere  in  Phrygia  fo?  to  gapne 

a  ilojnftnp  great,  tbe  tobicb  ttt  Duke  batb  noto  beftotoo  on  mee, 

(Upon  conoicion  to  remapn  bis  subieft  true  to  bee. 

Cbe 

464  gods],  God,  Ch. 


called  Common  condicions. 

£&e  tobicb  if  J  Galiarbus  be  euer  falfelp  founD. 
ge  beauenlp  potojes  Do  all  agree  mp  life  to  confounD. 
5oo  TBut  am  conffrainD  in  fpigbt  of  fo^ce  mp  toonteD  name  to  biDe, 
Leaft  ftp  tbat  king  Arbaccus  types  mp  Gate  UoulD  fie  efpiDe. 
lBut  ba  Galiarbus,  in  tbis  tbp  iope  tobat  fojrotoes  Dotb  abouno? 
fcftbat  fuooaine  griefes  atacbe  tbp  minDe?  tobat  care  tbv  batt  Dotb 
(H3bat  gooo  can  all  tbis  liuing  Do  to  tbee  in  fo?rain  lanD,   (toouno  r 
ano  feing  cbilD?en  ttoaine  remaine  a0  pet  in  tirants  banD? 
anD  in  tmine  tis  to  feno  fo?  tbem,  fo?  tobp,  tbat  cruell  kinge 
JF02  mine  offence,  31  tbis  am  fure,  in  pjifon  toill  tbem  fling. 
(DOell,  of  fo?ce  31  mull  content  mp  felfe,  anD  liue  in  care  ano  tooe, 
JFrom  cbiiD^en  ttoaine  31  muff  refraine,  anD  fo?  aie  tbem  fojgoe. 

1  ©ere  enter  Lamphedon  OUt  Of  Phrygia. 

5io  A%  one  tbat  fato  an  aple  faire  in  top  of  tree  Co  bpe,  Lamph<e.> 

anD  Durft  not  once  pjefume  to  come,  no?  D?ato  tbe  fame  anpe, 
jFo?  tbat  be  kneto  not  tobat  bz  toas  tbat  otoo  tbe  peece  of  grounD 
Wbztin  tbz  aple  on  top  of  tree,  in  beautp  Dio  abounD. 
Wfoitb  toas  a  caufe  of  bis  Diffres  anD  Double  griefe  of  minDe, 
jFo?  tbat  tbe  keepers  of  tbe  fame  did  ftoto  tbemfelues  tmkinoe. 
Cbis  aple  is  a  laop  faire  tobome  31  efpieu  tbis  Dap, 
as  31  in  jFojeff  bunting  toas  perming  of  tbe  p?ap. 
2Bbofe  betotp  batb  betoitcbeo  me,  euen  matoger  Dians  cbafe 
Co  peelD  anD  be  a  courtier  noto  unto  Dame  Venus  grace. 

520  ©a  Lamphedon,  tobere  is  become  tbp  ffout  couragious  minDe? 
^ball  figbt  of  Laop  caufe  tbee  noto  to  leaD  a  life  fo  blinDe? 
^balt  tbou  tobicb  art  fonne  to  tbe  Duke  of  Phrygia  noble  fople, 
Eefraine  tbp  tooonteD  pleafures  paff,  anD  tmoertake  tbis  topXef 
iI3ot  all  tbz  Phrygian  laDies  bere  coulD  caufe  tbee  fo?  to  rue, 
©a  tojetcb,  anD  batb  a  fo^aine  Dame  compelo  tbee  tben  to  fuef 
anD  muff  31  peelD  in  fpigbt  of  fo?ce  tmto  Cupido  beef 
anD  muff  31  leaue  mp  marfiall  feats  to  craue  ber  knigbt  to  bee, 
Wbom  neuer  pet  3  fato  before?  ba  cruell  to?etcb  tmkinoe 
Co  ftoote  tbat  Dart  to  pearce  mp  bart,  tobp  (bouioff  tbp  felf  fo  blinD 

530  31  am  to  craue  ber  loue  (alas)  tobom  neuer  pet  3i  fatoe 
Co  ftoto  like  loue  to  mee  againe,  but  Dio  berfelfe  toitbD^ato. 
anD  tbis  tbe  firft  time  is  (alas)  of  ber  3  bao  a  figbt, 
32lbofe  cumlp  lokes  $  betotp  tyaue  batb  tojougbt  to  me  tbis  fpigbt 

€  ©a 

500  am],  qy.  I  am.  501  by  that],  qy.  that  by.  503  atache],  i.e.,  attach : 

both  quartos  read  atacht.  513  tree],  thee  in  both  quartos.  514  a],  the,  Ch. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


©a  laDp  tyaue,  tooulD  goDs  tbou  fenetoeff  tbe  loue  31  beare  to  tbee. 
fcOoulD  goDs  p  tojctcb  tooulD  caufc  tbee  beare  again  like  loue  to  me 
fciHbp  Lamphedon,  p  fenotoeft  not  tobat  fte  10  percbace  a  p?incefle 
©a  cruel  too?Ds,  31  tbe  am  fure  ftee  toill  boloe  me  in  tftojne  (bo?n 
©oto  Dare  31  tben  attempt  tbe  tbing?  boto  Hare  31  tben  be  boioef 
&oto  Dare  31  once  p^efume  to  ber  mp  fo^totoes  to  tmfolDe? 
fc&ouio  goD  toben  firff  31  toolie  mp  toap  tbe  pleafant  cbafe  to  toeto:  540 
3!  baD  bin  flaine  tb^ougb  cruell  paine,  tben  ftoulD  not  tbis  infetoe. 
3BoulD  goDs  tbefe  zm  of  mine,  tobicb  giues  mp  boop  ligbt, 
©Hben  firft  tbep  Detoeo  tbp  comelp  grace  tbep  baD  bin  plucfcte  out 
jfo*  if  Apelles  bee  toere  patent  bere  in  place,  (quite, 

Onpoflible  it  toere  arigbt  to  picture  fo^tb  tbp  grace. 
TBut  fitb  tbat  Cupid  toill  not  fo?ce  ber  fo?  to  peelD  mee  loue: 
©Houlo  goDs  bp  otber  practices  ber  anftoeres  31  migbt  p?oue. 
©?  bp  fome  fecret  toap  anD  biDoen  ffrange  Deuice. 

f  ©ere  enter  conditions  ffanoing  pjiuelp. 
<Co>ndi.    nrD  meDDle  toitb  toitcbcrafte  31  count  pou  not  toife. 
<La>mphe.      oobat  toigbt  art  tbou  tbat  anftoereft  me  in  fucb  a  ItinDe  of  fo?t  55° 
/Co^ndit.       3|t  is  barD  toinning  of  tbz  citp  toitbout  ffealing  tbe  fotf. 
<^La>mphe.     §>fealinge  tbe  fo^tef  3f  go  not  about  tbe  citie  to  toin. 
<Co>ndi.        peea  but  as  far  as  31  can  fee,  Cupid  batb  bit  tbe  pin. 
<La>mphe.     mbat  toigbt  art  tbou  tbat  in  fucb  fo?t  Doff  feeme  fo?  to  reply? 
<Co>ndi.        ©ee  tbat  is  bp  Cupid  poffeff  of  fo?ce  muff  fojtoto  ttp. 
<La>mphe.     31  bere  a  uoice  correcting,  pet  no  liuing  toigbt  31  fee, 
<Co>ndi.        ©ee  tbat  truffs  to  a  broken  bougb,  map  bap  to  fall  from  tbe  tree. 
<La>mphe.     ©a  to?etcb  tobat  fo  tbou  bee,  31  tooulo  31  baD  tbee  bere, 
<Co>ndi.        3in  tmine  tis  toben  tbe  Dogs  are  toerp  to  toift  after  tbe  Deare. 
<La>mphe.     ji3ap  fure,  tojetcbe,  if  31  baD  tbzz  beare  tbou  fotfpff  me  to  do  it,  560 
<Co>ndi.        jftap  toitb  a  gooD  toill  31  befeefee  pou  fpare  not  go  to  ity 
TBut  if  3  ftouiD  ftur  euer  a  foote  from  tbis  place, 
Oee  migbt  foone  fpp  me,  anD  tben  after  me  tooulD  be  apace. 
Cbere  is  no  remeDp  but  to  bim  31  muff  anD  banpfc  feare  atoap, 
jFo?  in  tmine  it  is  from  bence  to  Depart  o?  tbe  foole  to  plap. 
©a  noble  Gentleman  goo  faue  pour  life  fo?  euer  to  remaine. 
<La>mphe.     (HJelcome  mp  freenD  DiDfl  tbou  replp  toben  31  Dio  late  complain 
<Co>ndi.        Bo  gentleman  3  am  no  fucb  feloto  as  pou  take  me  fo?  31, 
©e  oeferues  Deatb  tbat  anp  gentlemans  talfee  tooulD  fo  Defcrp. 

©f 

561  befeche,  Ch, 


called  Common  condicions. 

570     ©f  trutft  if  tbat  3!  bao  fum  6ere  bis  oeatb  be  Cure  (JjoultJ  gaine.  Lamp<he.> 

ano  toojtbp  fo?  oerioinge  fucbe  a  gentleman  to  tie  flame.  Condi. 

3|f  be  kneto  tbat  3  bao  anftoereo  bim  contrarp  to  euerp  too?D 
J&ee  tooulD  go  nere  to  tb?ull  me  tb?ougb  p  ftuttofes  toitb  bis  ftoo?0. 
I5ut  let  Conditions  alone  botofoeuer  tfcfe  geare  failed  out, 
$ee  toill  tjfe  a  pollecp  to  tying  tbi0  matter  toell  about. 
H3oto  tbi0  geare  cottons  lato,  noto  flmll  pou  plainly  fee, 
Wfyitb  toaies  fo  euer  tbe  toinoe  blotoe0  it  is  fo?  mp  commooitie. 
^a  noble  gentleman,  3  am  fo?p  to  fe  pou  at  tbia  flap, 
Cbat  at  tbe  firfl  figbt  of  a  Haop  pou  ftoulo  tbu0  pine  atoap. 
580    aobp  gooo  felloto  boto  knotoeft  tbou  mp  griefe,  to  mee  erp?e0?  Lamph<e.> 

E>ee  tbat  batb  felte  loue0  bitter  ilo?me0  mull  neeoes  tbe  trutb  Condi. 

ano  ball  tbou  bin  a  louer?  3  P?ap  tbee  noto  Declare,    (confefle  Lamph<e.> 

9Bbo  3?  tbat  baue  3  bin  in  loue  toitb  mp  otone  motbera  mare  Condi. 
TBut  tobat  fap  pou  to  bim  tbat  tooulo  belp  pou  tmto  tbat  name? 
2Bbo  caufetb  pou  tbis  rutbfullp  tbefe  fo?rotoe0  fo?  to  frame. 

2Bbat  fap  3  (quotb  pou)  marp  3  fap  be  is  too?tbp  to  baue.       Lamph<e.> 
&bz  tbinge  tbat  toitb  toung  is  tmpofltble  to  craue. 
iBut  mp  frieno  3  P?ap  tbee  erp?effe  ano  fteto  to  me  tbp  name. 

jailer  Affeaion,  noble  gentleman,  euen  tbe  tierp  fame,  Condi. 

590     jailer  Affe&ion,  ba  pe  goO0,  noto  fe  3  if  it  pou  pleafe,  Lamph<e.> 

3t  lietb  in  pour  banD0  mp  fo?rotoe0  fo?  to  eafe. 

Gentleman  tobatfoeuer  lpe0  in  mp  bano  is  to  pour  eafe.  Condi. 

Commauno  me  euen  tobat  pou  lill  ano  3le  Do  tobat  3  pleafe. 

OTbat  fapfl  tbOUf  Lamph<e.> 

3  fap  commauno  me  tobat  pou  Ipfl,  ano  3le  tio  tobat  pou  pleafe.  Condi. 

3  commauno  tbee  to  00  notbing,  but  to  aioe  me  bere  in,  Lamphe. 

Cbat  3  tbe  Laoie0  loue  tb?ougb  tbp  belp  map  but  toin. 
ftObicb  if  tbou  canll  00  tb?ougb  pollecp  ano  (kill 
Demauno  tobat  tbou  toilt  tbou  limit  baue  it  at  tbp  toill. 
600     3f  3  can  00  it  quotb  pou?  tobat  kinoe  of  quetlion  is  tbat?       Condi. 
H3ap  put  atoap  if,  fo?  3  can  00  it,  tbi0  is  plaine  anD  flat, 
ano  tberfo?e  noble  Lamphedon  pou  Iball  toeno  toitb  mee. 
2Bbere  fecretlp  pou  fljall  llano  ber  perfon  fo?  to  fee. 
Cben  ftall  pou  fjeare  bp  ber  communication  tbere, 
2Bbat  gooo  toill  affection  can  caufe  ber  fo?  to  beare. 
(Kiberfo?c  noble  knigbt,  come  let  D0  atoap. 

€  ii  p?oceeo 

577  waie,  Ch.  580-583   E.  C.  prints  the  marginal /peake/s  name  in  each  cafe 

one  line  too  low.  596  herein,  Ch.  604  there],  fo  Ch.:  their,  E.  C. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


<La>mphe.     ip?oceetie  affection,  on  tbp  toap,  fo?  31  minne  not  to  flap. 

<c>ondi.       gou  are  tbe  better  man,  tberefo?e  pou  ftall  firft  p?oceeoe. 

<La>mphe.     Cuft,  tuflj  affection,  all  tbis  courtefie  Uotb  not  neeoe.      Exit. 

<c>ondi.       l£a  6a  ba,  tbi0  geate  faul0  out  excellent  toell  in  oeeue.  610 

Welfare  a  craftie  knaue  at  a  time  of  neeoe* 
affection  Quotb  pou,  tobp?  tobat  a  counterfeit  knaue  am  31, 
€bu0  tmuer  tbe  title  of  affection,  mp  conoicions  to  applp? 

30  tbougb  it  lap  in  me  to  caufe  futcbe  fo?  to  loue  i 
J13o  no  tberei0  a  notber  tbat  tbi0  practice  trio  p?oue. 

jFo?  Clarifia  feepng  tbi0  Lamphedon  a  buntpng  in  tbe  cbafe, 
Wim  nigb  conflraineu  tb?ougb  Cupids  fo?ce  to  Cue  to  bim  fo?  grace 
Jl^otp  31  commpng  tbi0  toape0  tbe  game  fo?  to  fee, 
Cbauncen  to  beare  bim  fo?  bir  fake  in  toofull  flate  to  bee. 

31  toill  b?ing  tbem  togetber  fure  boto  fo  euer  it  faul0  out,  620 
jFo?  at  lengtb  it  toill  reootone  to  mp  profit  31  Ho  not  Ooubt. 
iRoome  fo?  a  turne  coate,  tbat  toill  turne  a0  tbe  topnoe, 

mbom  toben  a  man  tbinke0  furefl  be  Itnotoe0  not  tobere  to  finoe. 

Exit 

f  8>ere  entretb  Clarifia  alone. 
<c>larifia.  nrj£>e  leto?eo  bauke  tobofe  rotoling  epe0  are  firt  on  IPartretige  fafl 
9no  liue0  in  bope  ber  fligbt  once  tapne  to  toin  ber  p?ap  at  lafi: 
§>o  31  tbiougb  figbt  of  tmliant  knigbt  toitbin  tbi0  j?o?efl  bere, 
5>aue  firt  mp  epe,  tmtill  31  Die,  toppon  Lamphedon  oeere. 
i&a  toaliant  knigbt,  tobofe  comlp  co?p0  batb  toon  mp  bart  fo?  euer, 
aBbofe  figbt  batb  p?efi  mp  tenner  b?eft,  tbat  31  Uml  fapl  tbee  neuer. 
S&bat  oouble  greifs  feele  31  fo?  tbee?  tobat  tooe0  no  31  fufiaine?  6So 
22Jbat  beape0  of  care  in  tenner  b?eft  fo?  tbp  ftoeet  fake  ootb  rapne  ? 
©a  Lamphedon,  no  pitie  bere  tbp  captiue  in  tbi0  cafe, 
ano  graunt  tbat  fte  obtapne  of  tbee  tbp  fauouc  anti  tbp  grace, 
let  not  blinoe  Cupid  to?ongfullp  on  me  W  cunnpng  ftotoe, 
Let  not  mp  loue  fo?falten  be  tobicb  31  to  tbee  no  otoe. 
ilet  not  tbp  mpnoe  cleane  contrarp  be  fetleD  on  anotber. 
©a  Cupid  blinoeo  <fcou  of  loue,  take  not  tbe  tone  fo?  totber, 
^itb  tbat  tbou  fo?ceoft  me  to  loue,  ba  migbtie  goO0  graunt  mee, 
Cbat  31  map  once  obtapne  bi0  loue,  mp  linkeo  fpoufe  to  bee, 
15ut  ba  Clarifia,  tbp  talke  i0  tmpne,  be  i%  a  Duke  bi0  funne,  64o 
ano  tbou  but  tmugbter  to  a  knigbt,  of  meaner  flate  art  come. 
©e 

615  there  is  an  other,  Ch.  629  preft],  qy.  perft. 


called  Common  condicions. 

loc  fozcctfj  not  tbp  loue,  be  toapes  not  tbp  gooo  toill, 
&3berfo?e  reftapne  toitb  cruell  papne,  ano  liue  as  louer  SOL 
f  i&ere  entretb  Lamphedon  fooenip. 
fcObat  neeoetb  furtber  trial  tben,  toben  3luoge  batb  bearo  p  tale  i  Lamph<e.> 
tobat  neeos  tbere  further  pice  in  cafe,  toben  agreements  ootb  affaile 
tobat  neeos  tbe  Curtcll  toiflj  ber  mate,  3  fte  in  place  ootb  ftanoe? 
tobat  neeo  baue  fentgbts  fo?  lLaop  figbts,  to  rapnge  in  famine  lano  ? 
tobat  neeoe  31  fo?  to  fue  to  tbee  tbp  loue  fo?  to  obtapne, 
J3D  iLaDp  oeare,  ano  feepng  tbat  fo?  me  tbou  ooeft  complapne? 

650  Lamphedon  ootb  p?ofeffe  be  toill  to  tbee  bee  faitbfull  fcnigbt, 
JI3ot  once  fo?  to  fojfake  tbp  loue,  fo?to?onge  ne  pet  fo?  rigbt. 
ano  tbetfo?e  Laop  peeioe  to  mee  like  pjomife  bere  agapne, 
Co  reft  to  me  as  31  to  tbee,  a  louer  true  certapne. 
toberfo?e  t>  laop  anftoer  mee  to  tbis  mp  queftion  ftraigbt. 

&hz  fillp  fiU  tbat  once  is  tapne,  muft  peeio  tmto  tbe  bapgbt.    ciarifia. 
toberfo?e  fir  i&nigbt  rigbt  toelcome  Cure  onto  ciarifia  ftee, 
tobo  almoft  felt  of  Plutos  papnes,  ano  all  fo?  loue  of  tbee, 
31f  all  tbe  Troian  knigbts  toere  bere,  0?  Grecian  in  like  cafe, 
tub  of  c  ualiant  courage  Oio  fur  pas  ecbe  toigbt  in  euerp  place: 

660  ciarifia  ootb  pjoteft,  as  fte  is  lLaop  true, 

Co  reft  tbp  loue  tubile  life  inoure  bap  fo  tobat  (ball  cnfue. 
ano  tbetfo?e  mp  ftoeet  loupng  knigbt,  baue  no  miftruft  in  mee, 
jFor  31  00  tobole  betake  mp  felfe  onto  tbe  tofe  of  tbee, 
<oo  tbat  tbou  toilt  perfo?me  tbe  bonoes  of  toeoiocke  in  tbis  cafe, 
31  am  content  tbat  none  but  tbou  mp  co?ps  (ball  fure  imbjacc. 
toberfo?e  fir  l&nigbt  replp  agapne,  are  pou  berein  contents 

<£lfe  all  tbe  potoers  tbat  fits  in  tb?one  00  eno  toitb  cruell  oent  Lamph<e.> 
8$p  poutbfull  oapes,  ano  after  tbat  toitb  Pluto  let  me  rapne, 
tobere  as  tbe  greeflp  5>ags  00  reft  toitb  trebell  care  ano  papne. 

670  ano  tberfo?e  Laop,  bere  is  mp  banoe,  eke  faitb  ano  troutb  31  giue, 
Co  reft  ano  be  tbp  louing  knigbt,  tobilft  31  baue  oap  to  liue. 
3ln  figne  toberof  take  bere  tbis  gim,  ano  toeare  it  fo?  mp  fake, 

Opon  conoicion  noble  knigbt,  tbe  fame  of  tbee  31  take.  Ciarifia. 

TBut  pet  receiue  of  Laop  tbine  a  pleoge  fo?  pleoge  agapne, 
3ln  token  tbat  fo?  ape  31  teft  tbp  loue  toitbout  oifoapne. 
W^z  tobicbe  TB?acelet  \%  maoe  of  goioe,  receaue  tbat  toitb  gooo  toil 
ano  all  tbat  ootb  belong  to  me,  ftali  reft  as  tbine  otone  ftill. 

c  Hi  tobetfo?e 

643  as],  a,  Cb.  646  her],  qy.  his. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


fcHberfo^e  fp?  knigbt  receiue  tbefame  of  me  tbp  laDp  Deate, 
<L>amphe.     31  fljall  ©  llatip  fo?  pour  fake  euen  place  it  pjefent  bere. 

ana  till  31  Hie  31  furelp  toill  toeare  it  fo?  loue  of  tbine,  680 

anD  tbis  ftall  reQ  in  keping  mine  till  napes  mp  life  Define. 
©Hell  Haop  tben,  mp  toife  pou  are  before  t&e  goos  pou  fee, 
31  am  anfc  toill  remaine  mp  oeare  a  true  Penelopee, 
Cbougb  31  fo*  tbp  ftoeete  falte  mp  knigbt  a  tfjoufann  tooes  ftouin 
31  tooulti  remaine  as  true  to  thee  as  Q)ee  Din  to  tier  loue.    (p?ouc: 
<L>am.  ant)  LaDp,  as  true  toill  31  Gill  tell  to  tbee, 

3s  Leander  &i&  tbat  ftoome  ouer  tbe  fea. 
<H!berfo?e  ©  Haap  toeno  toitb  me  unto  mp  fathers  place, 
flBbere  toee  toill  foone  tbere  marrpea  be  if  tbat  tbe  potojes  graunt 
Wbttfoiz  mp  neare  ciarifia,  let  tos  no  longer  flap,  (grace.  69o 

<C>la.  Co  folloto  pou  toberefo  it  bee,  Clarifia  ljjall  obap. 

Cberfo?e  p^oceen  toben  pou  tbinke  beft, 

<X>am.  CO  toapgbt  tjpon  Clarilia  Lamphedon  ape  iS  p?eft.  Exeunt 

If  ©ere  enter  Conditions  fooeinlp. 
<c>on.       rjJDti  giue  pou  3iop  31  bartelp  p?ap,  ann  feno  pou  botb  goon  lucke, 
ana  if  31  migbt  pou  ftoulo  be  fure  to  baue  boines  lilte  a  TBucke. 
<c>la.  3Bbp  boto  noto  Conditions,  tober  baft  tbou  bin  all  tbis  tobile? 

<C>on.  ©a  3J  cbanft  to  fall  a  flepe  as  31  toas  lifting  mp  legge  ouer  a  ftile 

<ci>a.  ana  toas  tbat  tbe  matter  tbou  ftaieuft  fo  longe  bebinDe? 

<C>on.  3in  faitb  31  baue  flept  fo  long  tbat  botb  mine  eies  are  almoft  blina 

<LSam.         a^bat  Rafter  affection,  of  trotb  pou  are  toelcome,  boto  fare  pou  700 
<c>on.  <£uen  in  goon  bealtb  noble  gentleman,  boto  Do  pou  ?      (noto  ? 

'C>la.  affection,  pe  are  miffo^mea  Conditions  is  bis  name. 

t>on.  1Bp  p  mas  ercept  31  anftoere  toifelp  it  toill  tcna  to  mp  ftame. 

>am.  31  am  fure  bis  name  is  affection,  let  bint  aenp  it  if  be  toill, 

>on.  (Unto  anp  of  tbofe  ttoo  names  31  muff  neeas  anftoere  ftill. 

jFo?  affection  mp  fure  name  is,  tbis  is  plaine, 
TBut  Conditions  mp  kitfun  name  is,  to  eitber  of  tbefe  ttoaine 
anftoere  31  toill  tbougb  it  turne  to  mp  griefe, 
IBeleeue  me  gentleman,  if  31  lie  bange  me  like  a  tbeife. 
K5ap  toee  beleeue  tbee  Conditions  toitbout  fartber  talke.  7io 

OBell  tben,  toill  it  pleafe  pou  on  pour  iournep  fo?  to  toalke. 
aBbp  Conditions,  tobat  3lournep  tbinke  pou,  baue  toe  to  goe  ? 
H3ap  let  tbofe  tbat  are  louers  iuage  tbat,  31  fap  no  mo. 

702  mifformed],  qy.  mifinformed  ? 


called  Common  condicions. 

31  perceiue  be  toill  p?oue  a  fore  if  pou  talfee  tDttb  bim  long,       Lam. 

Who  rakes  bim  fo?  anp  otber,  IboulD  proffer  turn  mucb  tojong.  cla. 

JI2ap  egMffres  Clarifia  if  time  conuenient  tooulD  ferue,  con. 

31  coulD  p?oue  tbat  tocmen  comonlp  tfjat  name  Dotb  mod  Deferue. 
Tout  if  pou  pleafe  to  Depart,  31  ten?  am  to  toaigbt. 

Come  Haop,  fo?  toe  intenD  from  bence  to  toeno  ffraigbt.  Lam. 

720 p?oceeD  mp  Deare  fo?  Clarifia  is  p?eff  to  fulfill  <cla  > 

pour  minDe  in  cuerp  refpect  acco?Ding  to  pour  toill. 
©Hberfo?e  Conditions  come  ano  toaite  ftill  on  ds.  Exit 

Jftap  if  31  be  bebinoe  tben  bang  me  as  bp  as  tbe  boute.  con. 

lj>a  are  tbep  gone?  toas  euer  fenaue  befet  in  name  fo  before ? 
affection  quotb  pou?  toell  fare  at  a  pincbe  euermo?e. 
JFo?  if  31  ban  not  rounDlp  anftoeren  to  mp  counterfeit  name, 
31t  tooulo  furelp  baue  reDotonD  to  mp  titter  ftame. 
16ut  botofoeuer  tbe  too?lo  goes  parafites  part  31  muff  plap, 
jFo?  to  get  mp  Ipuing  31  can  finDe  no  otber  kinDe  of  toap. 
730  ftOell  31  muff  after  to  tbe  Dukes  place,  euen  as  faff  as  3!  map, 
T6ut  in  tbe  eno  marfce  boto  tbe  craftp  fenaues  part  31  totll  plap. 

f  ©ere  enter  Sabia  alone. 
[  3l&e  as  tbz  IRat  tbat  once  batb  taft  of  Rofalgar  0?  bapne,  Sabia. 

iRunnes  p?efentlp  to  fome  moiff  place  to  coole  bet  poifneD  pain: 
%o  31  being  poffeff  (alas)  tb?ougb  Cupids  Dietfull  Dent, 
Dotb  liue  in  ppning  ffate  fo*  ape,  tbat  life  isi  toell  np  (pent, 
©a  (toeet  Nomides  tobo  caufer  art  of  tbfe  mp  griefe  anti  too. 
jFo?  Cupid  be  batb  fo?ceD  me  all  pleasures  to  fo?  go, 
31n  tbat  tmegallp  at  mee  bi$  poifoneti  Umft  batb  raugbt, 
Co  caufe  me  fet  mp  loue  on  bim  tobo  toil  fet  me  at  naugbt. 
740  TBut  fo?  bis  fake  31  faDe  as  tiotb  tbe  aotoer  in  fommers  Dap, 
31  pine  as  Dotb  tbe  Meriine  (jee  tbat  coulD  not  toin  ber  p?ap. 
31  greeue  31  toaile  mp  lucfelefle  lot,  31  am  in  toofull  ffate, 
31  finDe  no  toap  tbat  map  impaire,  0?  tbiz  mp  fo?rotoes  bate. 
31  curfe  map  fure  tbe  time  tbat  31  &iO  tietoe  tbp  comlp  face, 
31  fcnoto  rigbt  toell  in  toaine  it  is  to  fetoe  to  tjjee  fo?  grace. 
31  perce  tbe  beauens  toitb  mp  Dole,  ant)  lamentable  crp, 
31  craue  of  blinoe  Cupido  bee,  mp  fute  not  to  Denp. 
Why  toas  it  not  mp  cbance  alas  a  p?inces  fo?  to  bee? 
Wbv  toas  mp  fo?tune  to  be  bo?ne  of  bafe  ant)  loto  Degree? 
75o  wbi*  toas  it  ab  mp  Deffinp  to  be  a  Phificions  cbilDe? 

720  margin.    Thefpeake/s  name  is  omitted  by  both  quartos. 

740  flowers,  Ch.  743  this],  qy.  thefe.  749  ends  page  in  Ch. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


ft&bp  toas  it  not  mp  fortune  ba,  to  come  of  fiocfce  fo  miloe. 
flBberebp  3  mougbt  eniop  tbp  loue  ba  too?tbp  fenigbt  moft  fiotot, 
mhott  comlines  notb  far  furpas  tbe  ftnigrfits  of  Phrygia  rotot. 
(KIbicb  caufetb  me  tb?ougb  feruencie  to  craue  of  tbee  tbp  loue, 
Cbougb  toomanboooe  nenapes  tbe  fame,  ann  notb  me  fo?e  nifp?oue 
COell,  bere  enter*  bee  bim  felfe  alone,  noto  belpe  pe  goos  of  migbt 
9nn  graunt  tbat  3  otitaine  mp  feute  tobicb  31  neferun  tip  rigbt, 
TBut  firfi  31  toill  go  lb?ouo  mp  felfe  in  co?ner  fecretlp, 
Co  beare  a  tbat  fo?  anp  one  bee  toill  feeme  to  replp. 

f  J£>ere  enter  §>ir  Nomides.  (fpople 

<N>omides.  Cbougb  raging  fio?mes  of  totnters  fo?ce  batb  none  tbeir  too?ft  to  76o 
Cbougb  Boreas  ti  bis  boifterous  blafts  notb  range  in  euerp  fople, 
Cbougb  clotteo  6am  Accamous  ftofl  notb  freefe  on  date  ann  bill: 
pet  can  tbe  toarmen  footfjerne  toinne  tbeir  raging  forces  MIL 
Cbougb  fortune  Ibee  nin  ftotone  on  me,  $  to?ougbt  fo?  me  fucb  fate 
get  at  tjje  lafi  all  fto?mes  once  pafi  ftee  fmiles  on  mpne  eflate. 
Cbougb  baniftt  J  from  cuntrep  fople  ann  natiue  fcinffolke  neare, 
get  batf)  tbe  poto?es  aifino  to  mee  a  fmigbtlp  liuinge  beare. 
anberas  3f  leane  mp  life  at  refi,  tobere  31  minne  to  remaine, 
GJntill  tbe  fillers  cut  tbe  tb?en  of  nitall  life  in  ttoaine. 
9s  fo?  mp  tJfuall  name  is  to?nn,  ann  fo?  euer  toill  fo?fali,  77o 

9nn  terme  mp  felf  fir  Nomides,  a  fcnigbt  of  lotoe  efiate. 
fc&berbp  3  quietlp  map  refi,  ann  liue  at  eafe  fo?  ape. 
'But  contrary  if  fmotoen  31  toere>  it  toouin  tourne  to  mp  necap. 
'But  fo?  to  tbinite  of  fatber  mine,  it  greeues  mp  carefull  b?efl, 
Cbat  bee  ftouin  rainge  in  cuntreis  Grange,  $  31  ftouin  liue  at  refi. 
9nn  elte  faretoell  mp  filler  neare,  tobom  31  baue  left  bebinne, 
3ln  cruell  tp?ants  mumering  bann,  tbp  life  enn  fo?  to  finne. 
31  can  not  cbetofe  but  muft  acurfe  tbe  time  31  flen  atoap, 
9nn  left  tbee  fo  bebinne  to  refi  tmto  tbp  foes  a  p?ap. 
31  can  not  but  mufl  nens  confeffe  31  tooo?tbp  am  of  Same,  78o 

3in  leauing  tbee  a  p?ap  to  tbofe  tbat  fone  tbp  neatb  nin  frame. 
9  cruell  b?otber,  mougbt  tbou  fap  31  nin  remaine  to  tbee, 
Cbat  like  a  nafiarn  fien  atoap  toben  31  tbp  gam  ftoum  bee. 
WlzW  in  toaine  it  i%  fo?  to  repine,  fitb  tbat  tbe  potoers  are  bent 
Co  tooo?fee  tbeir  furp  on  tbem  ttoaine,  31  muft  be  toeil  content. 

<s>abia.         WitW  met  §>ir  fmigbt  tbus  folitarp  in  fieins  pour  felfe  alone. 

a 

777  murtheryng,  Ch.  785  ends  page  in  Ch. 


called  Common  condicions. 

31  am  penfiue  Haop  but  pet  toelcome  to  me  as  anp  one.  Nomid. 

JI3ot  fo  fit  fenigbt,  31  tbinfee  pou  beare  to  LaDies  no  fuel)  loue,  Sabia. 

a^p  llaop  bote  fenoto  pou  tbat,  pou  Did  me  neuer  p?oue.  Nomid. 

790     %>bt  p  ftouio  p?oue  31  tbinfee  JboulD  finDe  in  pou  fum  futtel  gple  Sabia. 

gou  toeemen  Cure  are  ful  of  p  tbougb  oftentimes  pou  fmile       Nomid. 

Wit  toeme  ?  nap,  in  men  pou  toouio  fap  fo?  toeme  mean  to  true  Sabia. 

§>ap  pou  fo  LaDpf  fo?  erperience  tben  marfe  tobat  tooo?Ds  enfue.  Nomid. 

fpeafee  fo?tb  pour  minDe  31  am  content  if  fo  pou  toill  not  fame  Sabia. 

31f  fo  31  Do  LaDp,  31  Doubt  not,  but  pou  toill  replp  againe.         Nomid. 

anD  reafon  gooD  if  to?ongfullp  pou  toemen  tooulD  Difp?oue,       Sabia. 

H3ot  to?ongfullp  but  rigbtfullp  J  ftall  erp?es  pour  loue.  Nomid. 

ano  tberfo?  Haop  beare  mp  talfee  tbat  31  in  b?eef  (ball  fpeafee, 
anD  after  if  pou  pleafe,  againe  replp  pour  minDe  to  b?eafee. 
800  jFirfi  tobat  loue  3  p?ap  pou  bare  Helena  tmto  ber  lo?De  anD  feinge? 
ftHbat  conflancp  in  Crefeda  did  refl  in  euerp  tbinge? 
ftftbat  loue,  31  P?ap  pou,  beare  Phedria  tmto  ber  Thefeus, 
(K*ben  in  bis  abfence  fte  DefiereD  bis  fonne  Hippollitusf 
iHJbat  true  loue  efee  bare  Medea  tmto  TDvikt  lafon  beef 
Cuft  ilaDp  in  tmine  it  is  to  talfee,  tbep  all  Deceitfull  bee, 
ano  tberfo?e  laDp  pou  muft  peelD  to  me  in  tbat  refpecte. 
Wen  mil  are  iufi  tbougb  toemen  mull  tbeir  pligbteD  aotos  neclect 

^ufi?  tobp  belike  pou  tbinfee  it  comes  to  tbem  b^>  courfe  of  feinDe  Sabia. 

il5ot  3i  mp  felfe  do  fap  tbe  fame,  but  in  aucto?s  31  it  finoe.        Nomid. 
810     3(n  aucto?s  tben  pou  baue  an  aiD  fo?  to  Difpute  toitb  meef        Sabia. 
IBut  fo?  all  pour  aiD  in  toap  of  ieft  againe  3(  toill  replp, 
3If  fo  pou  toill  atentiue  bee  to  tbat  31  bere  (ball  fpeafee. 

Wiitb  toiiling  bart  31  Do  agree  tbat  pou  pour  minDe  ftal  b?eafee.  Nomid. 

Cben  fir  fenigbt  boto  faitbfull  teas  Eneas  to  Didoes  grace?       Sabia. 
Co  tohom  be  pligbteD  faitb  bp  tiotoe  none  otber  to  imb?ace. 
©oto  faitbfull  teas  K>ukt  lafon  bee  tobom  Medea  DiD  apD  f 
&Hben  bee  to  toin  tbe  goulDen  fleece  bp  Otes  toas  Difmaio? 
anD  Thefeus  3f  p?ap  pou  alfo  boto  faitbfull  DiD  bee  biDe 
©Hben  tbat  tbe  t)oto  be  once  bao  maDe  to  Ariadne  be  oeniDe. 

820  ©OtD  faptbfUll  toas  Deomedes  one  Of  tbe  Greekifhe  cretiJ 

Cbougb  Troiius  tberin  toas  iufi  pet  toas  bee  founo  tmtretoe. 
anD  fo  bettoeene  tbofe  ttoaine,  anD  fo?tunes  lucfeles  bap, 
§bee  toas  lifee  Ha^er  faine  to  fit  anD  beg  toitb  tmij  anD  clap. 

D.  €uft 

789  neuer,  Ch. :  meuer,  E.C.  807  negledt,  Ch.  822  ends  page  in  Ch. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


£uft  tuft  pou  fee  to  truft  to  men  tobofe  fickle  b?aines  are  fo, 
Cbat  at  tbe  firft  figbt  of  euerp  toigbt  tfteir  pligbteo  ootoes  fo?  go. 
ann  tberfo?e  pou  muft  toep  in  minoe,  tbougb  toemen  fomettme 
8$en  toil  no  fo  tbougb  to  tljcir  too  it  notb  enfetn  31  toifle.     (miflc 
<^N>omides.     3|n  neene  lanp  31  ntuft  confeflfe  tbat  pou  tbe  trutb  baue  fapn. 
<s>abia.  £ben  fap  tbat  pou  toere  conqueren  in  talking  toitb  a  mapn 

<N>omides.     j!3ap  lanp  lie  tbat  tallies  toitb  pou  ontill  tbe  fiein  be  gaine,       s3o 
§>bouin  p?oue  tbe  labour  be  ftoulo  take  botb  fruftrate,  fonn  9  oain 
jFor  to&pf  tbougb  men  can  toin  in  fieiu  botb  bonour  p?aife,  $  fame 
gee  toeme  bp  pour  futtel  fligbts  full  foone  tbeir  oeatbs  can  frame, 
ann  tberfo?e  lanp  31  muft  graunt  pou  are  to  ftronge  fo?  mee, 
ann  if  31  toere  a  iuoge  certeine  pe  toemen  ftoulo  Latopers  bee. 
<s>abia.         Yemeni1  tobp  tbe  tobat  tooulo  pou  baue  poo?e  tDitles  me  to  fap 
<N>omides.     Co  ftano  ann  beare,  ann  iunge  arigbt  opon  tbe  toemens  plap. 
<Sa>bia.         Wt\  tben  ftal  pou  be  a  iuuge  to  tbat  tobicb  31  in  place  ftal  fpeak 
<N>omides.     WlzX  tbe  p?oceeoe  $  let  mee  beare  tobat  too?ns  pou  mean  to  b?eak 
<Sa>bia.  Cbere  ferns  a  ftip  tbat  cbanft  to  faple  a  tbtoart  tbe  raginge  fea,  s4o 

ann  being  in  tbe  mioneft  tberof  at  anker  ann  at  eafe: 
3ln  fonnen  tbere  arofe  a  flo?me  ann  fillp  barke  fo  toft, 
31n  fucb  a  raging  kinne  of  Co?t,  tbat  ankers  all  toere  Ko& 
jftoto  ankers  being  gone,  ann  Cabels  in  like  cafe: 
£be  fill?  15arke  bj>  tumbling  toaues  teas  toll  from  place  to  place, 
£be  mariners  nin  quake  fo?  feare  to  fee  tbat  iuckles  nap, 
Cbat  to  tbe  goos  toitb  bumble  fute  tbep  all  began  to  p?ap. 
£be  gons  tben  bearing  of  tbeir  plaint  ann  lamentable  crp: 
Din  0?iue  tbem  ftraigbt  bp  fo?ce  of  toinoe  tmto  an  bauen  bp. 
fljOberas  tbep  bope  fo?  ape  to  reft  if  potoers  no  graunt  tbem  grace  s5o 
Lo  noto  fir  knigbt  iunge  pou  arigbt  on  tbis  mp  toifteo  cafe* 
<N>omides.     jQa  Lanp  if  pou  put  fo  bam  nemaunns  onto  pour  iunge  at  furft: 
ibee  muft  baue  time  to  paufe  tberon  left  be  (bouin  iunge  at  too?ft. 
Cben  tooulo  pou  put  fome  blame  in  bim  ann  fap  be  nin  pou  to?ong 
€berfo?e  be  giues  tbe  iuogment  to  pour  feife  tbat  are  fo  ftronge. 
<£ooo  Lanp  let  me  bere  tbefame,  31  bartelp  require* 
<Sa>bia.         3[n  bope  to  baue  mp  toiften  toill  pou  (ball  baue  pour  nefire. 
€be  ftip  tobicb  31  fpake  of  befo?e  is  3  mp  felfe  fir  knigbt: 
ann  being  once  inflamen  alas,  bp  Cupids  raging  fligbt. 
3Bas  toft  on  toaues  of  to?ackfull  too,  ann  all  fo?  tbp  ftoeete  loue,  860 

a 

824  truft  to],  truft  in,  Cb.  825  forgo,  Cb.  833  Yce],  Yea,  Ch.-, 

by  your],  by  their  in  both  quartos  {probably  by  yr  in  author's  MS.). 

836  witles],  witneffe,  Ch.  852  Na],  Naie,  Cb.  856  the  fame,  Ch. 

859  flight],  flight,  Ch.  859  ends  page  in  Ch. 


called  Common  condicions. 

J  fojcco  toas  toitb  bumble  Cute  to  ctaue  of  gons  about 

Co  feno  to  me  fome  pleafant  time  tbat  J  toitb  pou  mougbt  talfee, 

(RHbere  nolo  it  teas  mp  cbance  fit  fenigbt  to  ftnoe  pou  in  tjjis  toalfee 

31  fojceu  am  of  feruencp  to  craue  of  pou  pour  loue 

ano  eke  to  fet  all  fljamc  afiOe  pour  gooo  toill  fo?  to  pzotic. 

Graunt  me  tberfoje,  HD  tootfbp  fmigbt  tbat  none  but  onelp  J, 

%ban  tbee  pofles,  fo?  louing  fere,  untttl  toe  botb  flmll  ope* 

iRefufe  me  not  tbat  am  tbp  frieno  tobo  loues  tbee  as  ber  life, 

ano  graunt  tbat  none  but  Sabia  Qjalbe  tbp  onlp  toife. 
87o  ILo  tbis  is  all  D  tootfbp  fcnigbt,  t&at  31  of  tbee  require, 

jFotfa&e  not  tbp  oeare  laoies  fute,  but  graunt  to  ber  oefire. 
Madame  tbe  6att  tbat  once  is  firt  01  fet  ano  batb  p  lilies  bim  bell  Nomid<es.> 

fcftbat  neeos  it  fo?  to  fee&e  fo?  mo?e  totyeeoe  bis  mo?e  tinrel}? 

8£p  bart  is  firt  upon  t&e  twinge  tbat  31  all  reop  baue, 

ano  tfterfo^e  ilaop  in  oaine  it  is  of  mee  Curb  loue  to  craue. 

31  am  none  fucb  tbat  liues  bp  loue,  31  ferue  not  Venus  traine, 

3[  fojce  not  of  blinoe  Cupid  bee,  31  boulO  bim  in  Oifoaine. 

Cbougb  Poets  terme  bim  a  goo  ano  fap  be  ftootes  from  f&ie, 

€bt  tobicb  bp  gooo  erperience  3!  ftraigbt  flmll  bere  Oenp. 
880  Huff  fauotfng  follp  fonO,  oio  falflp  fo?ge  ano  faine 

loue  foi  a  goo,  becaufe  be  mougbt  bis  freeoome  mo?e  attaine, 

ano  tberfo^e  leaue  of  fute,  ano  craue  no  loue  of  mee, 

a^biles  a  &aue  We  tbis  is  certaine  31  tutll  no  louer  bee, 

ano  tberfo^e  laop  note  aoue.  Exit. 

a  too  be  to  tbe  time  tbat  firft  3  oio  begin  to  fetoe,  Sabia. 

Boto  fare  toell  all  mp  bope  of  bim  tobom  31  tbougbt  to  eniop, 

WWz  figbt  it  teas  tbat  fo^ceo  me  to  toaile  toitb  great  anop, 

ab  cruell  goos  of  loue,  £D  craftp  cancreo  toigbt, 

Cbat  toffees  tbp  furp  opon  mee,  ano  toucbefi  not  t&at  fcnigbt. 
890  ab  fir  Nomides  tobiles  31  no  liue  in  iop, 

jftone  otber  ftall  attaine  mp  loue  tbougb  it  fyeeoe  mine  anop. 

ano  Sill  toill  31  incrocbe  on  tbee,  tbp  onelp  loue  to  baue, 

Cbougb  fo%  tbp  fafce  31  ftouio  betake  mp  felf  to  toofull  graue.  Exit. 

%  ©ere  entretb  Conditions. 

A  ©  ab  ab  tfjis  geare  cottens  31  map  fap  to  pou.  Condi. 

31  baue  tojougbt  a  fete!)  to  fet  tbe  bp  §  eares  imp  tobat  ftai  enfue 

d  a  i6p 

873  to  breede,  Ch.  878  a  god],  conj.  Dyce\  aged,  both  quartos. 

894  geare  cottens],  greare  cocoes,  Ch. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


T6p  mp  boneffp  it  notti  me  goon  tbat  31  fo  craftp  ftouin  bee 
JFo?  tbe  Dutcbes  10  fallen  out  toitb  clarifia  long  of  mee. 
JFo?  31  toin  certein  of  bet  toaiting  maines  boto  §  people  in  ccb  place 
aiues  clarifia  tbe  p?apfe  ann  Capes  ftee  ercels  tbe  Dutcbes  grace, 
a&bicb  toben  die  beam  Co  cbafen  tbat  it  toas  ftraung  to  beboioe,  9oo 
©n  tbe  otber  fine  Lamphedon  toouin  not  baue  bis  lanp  controtoioe. 
€f)M  baue  31  fet  tbem  togetber  bp  tbe  eares  bap  tobat  bap  Qmll, 
9nD  marfee  tbe  enn  of  tbis  geare  tobicb  toap  it  limit  fall. 

JFO?  Clarifia  fjauing  tO  tmfele  Mountaynio  lunge  Of  Thrace, 

Ctflill  no  longer  bere  abine  but  (iraigbt  toaies  tbitber  toill  trace, 
anu  note  at  tbe  fea  coal!  baue  31  bin  flapping  to  p?ouioe, 
JFo?  mp  Rafter  Lamphedon  ann  clarifia  againil  tbe  nert  tine. 
31  muft  atoap  rome  fo?  a  cutter  tbat  is  euerp  pncbe  a  man, 
a  trillain  tbat  toill  fet  a  tboufann  bp  tbe  eares  if  bee  can. 

f  ©ere  entretb  Lamphedon  anO  clarifia. 

<L>amphe.  pLarifia  ann  mp  neare  toife  before  tbe  gong  bp  note,  9io 

GOitb  liftinge  eare  no  marke  in  b?iefe  tobat  3f  ftall  Cap  to  pou, 
Cbougb  motber  mine  tbe  Dutcbes  ftee  fucb  rigo?  feemes  to  ftoto, 
ann  all  fo?  tbe  goon  toill  tobicb  31  to  pou  no  bear  ann  otoe: 
Het  not  tbe  fame  oifmap  pour  minne  call  penfiuenes  afine, 
JFo?  till  tbat  life  be  tapne  from  mee  mp  trutb  ftall  fure  be  trine, 
ann  tberfo?e  JLanp  feeme  not  to  nepatt,  31  tbinfce  it  befl. 

<ci>a.  a  mp  Lamphedon  neare  leaue  of,  ann  graunt  tbp  loues  requefl 

§eeme  not  to  flap  toitb  lanp  tbine  in  Phrygia  to  ber  too, 
TBut  come  ann  toenn  toe  p?efentlp,  to  Thracia  let  as  go. 
JFo?  mp  ancle  Mountanio  kinge  of  Thrace,  batb  fent  fo?  mee,       920 
ann  in  bis  letter  bee  batb  fent,  mp  louing  ftnigbt,  fo?  tbee. 
Defirpng  as  to  come  to  bim,  ann  tbat  in  continent, 
JFo?  tobp  bee  batb  no  cbiine  aliue,  toee  fcnoto  not  bis  intent, 
lg>ercbance,  mp  neare,  bee  toill  beffoto  on  ns  fome  goons  0?  toeltb, 
ftftberas  toe  map  mo?e  quiet  liue  in  perfecte  3lop  ann  bealtb. 
ann  fo  our  abfence  map  in  time  obtaine  pour  motbers  loue, 
©Hberas  our  p?efence  being  beare  to  anger  notb  ber  moue. 
©Hberfo?e  mp  loue  nenp  me  not,  but  let  ns  bence  nepart. 

<L>amphe.     a  cruell  motber  to  tbp  cbiine  cbeefe  caufe  of  tbis  W  fmart. 

8£uft  31  ftom  ipfceo  fople  nepart  on  feas  in  ftip  to  fapll  93o 

Whm  oftetimes  tb?ougb  fo?ce  of  toaues  t  caruen  placfes  no  faill. 

904  to],  an,  Ch.  906  at,  om.  Ch.  922  incontinent,  Ch. 

925  Where  as,  Ch. 


called  Common  condicions. 

g&uff  La&p  mine  tad  tbe  like  fe^ongei1  a  cruel  1  parents  fare. 
Cbat  to  pout  onlp  funne  pou  couio,  futcb  beapc.s  of  care  procure. 

11  5)ere  entretb  condicions  fuooenlp. 
(^©00  ame0,  are  pou  bere  31  baue  bin  feefepng  pou  all  aboute,    Condi. 

Co  certifie  pou  of  netoe0  tobicbe  are  fo  true  out  of  Doubt. 
Cbe  Dufee  pour  fatber  batb  maoe  great  fearcbe  fo?  pou  ttoapne, 
ano  ootb  inteno  to  imp?ifon  pou  botbe,  tbi0  i0  plapne. 
ano  all  tjpon  tbe  requeft  of  tbe  Dutcbe0  if  pou  Do  not  flie 
31  am  aftapoe  pou  ano  pour  Laop  are  like  fo?  to  Die. 
94o  ano  tberfo?e  of  all  loues  come  come  let  tig  atoap, 

condicions,  come  betber  man,  ano  a  tobple  00  tbou  flap,  Lamph<e.> 

31  P?ap  tbee  tell  mee,  i0  it  true  tbat  tbou  oofi  noto  fapf 

ft&bat  a  man  man  are  pou?  take  mee  toitb  a  Ipe,  Condit. 

ano  tobip  mee  tbat  all  tjillapnes  map  take  erample  tberebp. 

ab  cruell  parents  to  pour  cbiloe,  ano  toouio  pou  feeke  bi%  Deatb  i  Lamph<e.> 
ano  can  pour  bart0  agree  in  one,  to  flop  biz  oitall  b?eatbi> 
ab  ipeaucn.s,  (ball  man  in  crueltie  pafife  tbe  Upon  feerce  in  fciio. 
Wfoitb  can  compell  eacbe  liuing  beaft  unto  biz  flrengtb  to  peeloe? 
get  tbe  Upon  ooubt*  to  flap  biz  tobelp,  0?  00  it  anp  to?onge. 
950  €bt  Serpent  toitb  tbe  Tiger  eke,  tobicbe  are  botb  fierce  9  flronge 
ftOill  neuer  feeme  at  anp  time  tbeir  pounglinges  fo?  to  greeue, 
16ut  toill  tbem  no?ift  tenoerlp  till  tbep  baue  flrengtb  to  liue. 
310  nature  cleane  erileo  quite  from  tbee,  mp  cruell  felerf 
3(0  pittie  put  from  out  tbp  minoe,  to  tojeakc  on  t)0  tbp  ire  i 
310  fatberlp  loue  cleane  gon  from  tbee?  i0  mercp  not  in  minDe? 
310  crueltie  crept  into  tbee  tbat  tbou  art  fo  tmkinoe? 
ab  #000,  nolo  faretoell  Phrygia  fople,  faretoell  ap  parent0  ttoapne 
fljQbo  fcekes  to  put  mp  loue  ano  mee  to  Oeatb  ano  cruell  papne. 
ab  mp  beloueo  clarifia,  31  toaple  to  tbinke  of  tbee, 
960  Cbat  p  ftouioeft  fuftaine  futcbe  to?onge  fo?  loue  tbou  beareft  mee. 
3|mpute  unto  tbp  louing  knigbt  no  blame  fo?  tbi0,  mp  oeere, 
jFo?  glaoip  if  31  coulo,  31  toouio  baue  tarieo  toitb  tbee  beere, 

Q>eete  i  tben  toeare  pou  tmtoife  if  beere  pou  toouio  flap,  ti0  plain  Condi. 
Co  baue  pour  laop  ano  pour  felf  of  all  boioen  in  oitoain. 
ano  tberfo?e  toitbout  fartber  talke  let  00  abioe  no  longer  beere, 
3|f  pou  00  31  am  aftapo  pou  are  like  to  biz  pour  tarping  oeere. 

fc&eil  tben  Conditions  3[  p?ap  tbee  to  fpeeo  our  Hupping  p?epare.  Lamph<e.> 

ID  Hi  Cuft 

934  are  you],  are  ye  yet,  Ch. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


<Co>ndit.  Cuft  tuft,  tf)t0  i0  alreDp  none  let  tfmt  fie  tbe  leaft  enD  of  pour  care, 
anD  tberfoge  of  ail  loues  let  us  be  gone,  lead  untoarcs  toee  lie  tapn 
$$i(leri0  ciarifia,  of  all  loue0  perltoaDe  bim  to  Depart  amapne.     97o 

<ci>a.  9b  mp  Lamphedon,  toenDe  toe  bence  incontinent  toitb  fpeeoe 

jFo?  tobp,  to  too#e  our  finall  eno  tbep  fullp  baue  Decreeoe. 
pou  neeDe  not  feare  fo?  toant  of  ftip,  Conditions  batb  been  tbare, 
9t  tf)c  tea  coaft  alreDie  Cure  our  ftipppng  to  prepare. 
anD  tberfo^e  let  D0  bence  Depart,  anD  tbat  incontinent 

<^La>mphe.      &©ell  tben  let  t)0  Depart,  mp  Deare,  fttf)  tbat  pou  are  Co  bent. 

<c>ondi.         are  tbep  gone?  Conditions  f  iftap  Double  conDicions  i0  mp  name 
Cbat  fo?.mp  otone  aDuantage  Cucbe  Dealpnge0  can  frame* 
Ji3ap,  if  toee  come  in  courte  agapne  to  ferue  a  fcpnge 
8)ange  mee  if  31  giue  not  a  tboufanD  of  tbem  tfte  flpnge.  9so 

Co  Thracie  quotb  pou?  tbere  coulD  be  no  better  iojnep  fo?  mee, 
fctHell  31  mull  begone,  fo?  31  can  neuer  be  toell  till  31  a  ftip  bojo  bee. 

f  €be  ^ariner0  toitbin. 
<M^after.        ©a  la  boto,  bope0  a  bade,  tber  call  baulfer  a  lanD. 
'M>.  mate      (Here  toere,  come  no  neare  leaft  toee  grounD  on  tbe  fanD. 
BSotefwain     Hancbe  out  tbe  Cocfce  bope0,  anD  fet  tbe  staffer  a  ftoare. 
B>oye.  &w  Cocfee  \%  lanfteD,  eacbe  man  to  W  oare. 

<c>ondi.         I&arfee,  bere  come0  our  ^ariner0  to  feefce  fo?  Lamphe  $  cia.  ftee 

&©bo  J  am  fure  bp  tbi0  time  alreaDp  a  ftipbo^De  bee. 
<M^after.        a  ftoare,  a  ftoare,  ecbe  man  on  tbe  lanoe. 
<M>.  mate.      TBop,  come  tip,  anD  grounD  tbe  Cocke  on  tlje  fanDe.  99o 

<c>ondi.         Ctoentie  pounD  to  a  penp  tbep  are  !Pp?at0  p  lanD0  beer  aboute, 
©a,  31  am  befet  in  futcbe  a  fotf  tbat  31  cannot  get  in  no?  out. 
Cbere  i%  no  remeDp  but  31  muft  ftanD  to  mp  tacfeling  bap  gooD  o?  il. 
3  muft  neeD0  Djato,  but  if  31  fi&bt  it  ftalbe  agapnft  mp  toill. 

f  ©ere  entretb  tbe  lPirate0  toitb  a  fonge 
<M^after.        ©a  co?agiou0  mp  mate0,  anD  ercellent  toell  Done. 
<M>.  mate.      I6p  gog0  blouD  Rafter  toe  toeare  bappp  toben  to  rob  toe  begun. 
<B>otefwain     jt  Dotb  me  gooD  to  fee  tobat  bootie0  toe  baue  baD  on  tbe  feas, 

fcfflbicb  reDotone0  to  our  profit,  tbougb  to  otber0  Difeafe. 
<B>oy.  Cbougb  31  be  but  ftipbop  31  mull  neeD0  fpea&e  mp  minDe 

3If  tbe  tobole  Cea0  toere  fearcbeD,  fucb  a  ftipful  of  tbeeue0  pou  coulD  iooo 
All.        §>peafee  foft  gooDman  bop,  lean  toee  be  efpieD.         (not  finDe. 

warn 

98i  Tharcie,  Ch.  987  LaphedS  &  Clarifia,  Ch.  992  can  not,  Ch. 


called  Common  condicions. 

SOfmt  IPirats?  H3ap  incontinent  J  toill  baue  tbat  tried.  Condi. 

<£og0  toounO0  oefenoe  pe,  fo?  pie  take  pou  all  mp  felfe. 

ftftilt  tbou  fo  i>  nap,  none  but  tbe  fyipbop  ftal  oeale  toitb  tbe  elfe.  Mafter. 

C23it6  a  bop?  if  pou  be  men  o?ato,  ano  come  trie  toitb  me  all    Condi. 

(KHilt  tbou  fo  ?  tip  gog0  blouo  tbi0  10  a  bould  enterp?ife  of  a  fqual  M.  mate. 

ft&ell  fitb  be  toill  neeoeg,  3lle  oeale  toitb  bim  mp  felf  band  to  bad  Botefwa<in.> 

Come  on  tben,  ftrike  it  out  at  length:  but  tobat  ar  pou  marines  Condi. 
31  toill  not  oeale  tben  toitb  pou  fo?  all  tbi0  land. 
ioio  jfo?  tbep  bee  goon  fellotoes,  tbep  be  no  quareler0. 

Wfoy  not  toitb  8£arriner0  31  P?ap  tbee?  come  let  d0  ttp  it  out.  Botefwa<in.> 

§>tap  t^p  bano,  it  fljall  not  be  fo,  to  put  tbee  out  of  oout.        Condi. 
Uizxz  it  to  d?p  toater  fouloio?0  31  toould  oeale  if  bere  toere  a  fko?e 
JFo?  31  baue  oealt  toitb  fo?tie  at  a  time  ano  mo?e. 

Cben  it  toere  to  mutcbe  fo?  me  to  oeale  toitb  pou  alone,  Botefwa<in.> 

Cbat  i0  true,  fo?  of  a  littell  man  tobere  31  bit  31  b?eake  tbe  bone.  Condi. 

3  P?ap  pou  fir  fteto  m  tobp  pou  beare  9^ariner0  (ucb  gooo  toill  ?  Mafter. 

TBecaufe  31  am  a  mariner  mp  felf  ano  baue  excellent  gooo  fkill.  Condi. 

and  baue  pou  futcb  excellent  gooo  fkill  in  oeeoe,  Botefwa<in.> 

1020  Cben  tobp  like  a  lanoeman  go  pou  in  futcb  a  toeede? 

Left  tbe  gooo  oeeO0  tobicb  31  baue  oone  on  tbe  fea0  Condit. 

iReootone  to  mp  fmall  comfo?t  ano  eafe. 

Wbv  tben  it  feeme0  bp  tbp  talke  tbou  baft  bin  a  Pitat  o?  tbi0f  Botefwa<in.> 

gea  in  faitb  baue  J,  ano  tbat  knotoe0  8$ariner0  flrip0  31  toi0,    Condi. 

TSp  gog0  blouo  31  toill  baue  bim  a  ftipbo?oe  o?  el0  J  toill  oie.    Mafter. 

Cbat  i0  enougb  3lle  take  pou  at  pour  too?d  fepng  tbere  i%  no  re*  con. 
mil  pou  baue  me  a  flripbo?d  tobetber  3!  toil  o?  no?  (meOie, 

pea  furelp  oefenoe  tbee,  fo?  jj  intenoe  fo.  Mafter. 

§>tap,  flap,  fljall  31  be  a  (barer  if  quietlp  31  go  Mtb  pou  abo?oei>  Condici. 
io3o     Cbere  i0  our  banO0,  toee  toill  make  tbee  our  captapn  at  a  too?o.    All. 

a  captapnef  bere  i0  mp  banoe,  to  go  toitb  pou  30  i0  pour  defier.  Condi. 
T5ut  it  toere  dncomlp  to  plap  tbe  fea  man  in  ianoeman0  attper. 

H5o  mo?e  tbou  (bait,  fo?  our  otber  Captapne  i0  oeao,  M.  mate, 

and  tbou  limit  baue  bin  attper,  ano  bin  roome,  ano  lie  in  bin  bed. 

ftftell  tben  come  on  ano  let  d0  a  ftipbo?oe  ftraigbt  Condi. 

3Bee  are  all  reop  on  our  Captaine  fo?  to  toaigbt.  All. 

I6ut  fir0,  tbere  i0  a  bototie  totoarO0  if  pou  folloto  mp  aduice      Condi. 
3nd  go  to  too?ke  toitb  all,  and  fteto  pour  felue0  toife. 

jBBfctt 

1018  Be  caufe,  Ch.  1037  you],  ye,  Ch. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


All. 
<C>ondi. 


<^B^otefwain 
Condi. 

Mountag. 


Sabia. 


Mountag. 


Sabia. 


fc&bat  10  tbat,  Captapne?  neclare  to  as  all. 

jt  is  a  pjap  tbat  toill  enricbe  botb  great  ann  fmall. 
ann  tisJ  tbis,  tbere  is  a  certapne  (fcentiiman  toitb  a  Hanp, 
iReanie  ftipt  to  faple  into  Thrace, 
toitb  great  a  bounoance  of  ricbes  ann  toealtb. 
jftoto  if  toee  couin  get  into  tbeir  toap  bp  ffeltb, 
Witt  fljouio  baue  futcb  a  boutie  tbat  toee  neuer  bat  futcfj  anotber. 

'Bp  gogs  bloun  be  is  an  ercellent  Captapn,  $  far  ercels  our  otber 
Captapn  let  as  a  bootf),  toee  aretbounne  to  Do  tobat  pou  tbinke  bell. 

Come  on  tben,  let  ti0  atoap,  p  in  mariners  attper  31  toere  njeft. 

Exeunt. 

f  ©ere  entretb  Mountagos  toitb  bis  naugbter. 
(^•©me  Sabia  bp  anti  bp  ann  ftoto  pur  fatber  ffratgbt  ann  queeke, 

3ln  tobat  place  in  te  boop  pou  be  fo  foie  feeke. 
8$p  tinke  pou  baue  te  greta  nefe^a  in  te  bellp  and  te  beta. 
I5p  gots  lotfie  Sabia  pou  loue  te  man  me  am  a  frapna. 
ami  pou  fo  Do  Sabia  erpieffe  to  pour  fatber  bp  ann  bp, 
16p  cotes  lotfi  me  geue  ttoentp  bunnjet  pounos  in  mariage  trulp. 
ann  terfoje  letta  me  kno  te  man  goon  Sabia  mp  ftiine, 
jFo?  me  kno  toel  erperien^a  pou  loue  te  man  me  am  no  begiioe. 

<^oon  jFatber  feeme  not  to  nemaunn  tbe  tbing  31  cannot  ftoto, 
€be  topgbt  tobom  boutonen  3  am  toitb,  of  trutb  3  no  not  knoto. 
3f  tbat  3  toeare  in  loue  at  all,  in  tiapne  it  toeare  fo?  mee 
at  anp  time  to  bine  tbe  fame,  futcb  fkill  remapnes  in  pee. 

a  Sabia,  fap  me  nota  fo,  fo?  me  kno  bp  goon  erperien^a, 
j?ou  loue  te  mana  longe  a  go,  terof  a  me  lap  a  bouno^en  pen^a. 
5>a  ba  Sabia,  dotD  noto,  tobata  fap  pou  apon  tig  geareaf 
e$z  feno  bp  goon  knolenga,  ann  pour  countnance  a  Defe?a  pou  beara 
ann  terfo?e  Sabia  erp?e?a  pour  fater  tobata  <$entelman  a  bee, 
Cfata  Sabia  mee  no  tobata  mee  can  to  maka  te  mariage  trulp. 
3!f  a  be  aparcbanta,  oi  (fcentelmana,  oi  knigbta,  o?  tobata  mana  a  be 
8£it  mp  palTpng  coninga,  mee  can  make  bim  loue  tee. 
ann  terfo^e  erp?e?a  pour  fatera  bp  ann  bp. 

(KHel  fitb  tbere  is  no  remeoie  in  trnpne  it  is  to  oenp. 
%j>l  Nomides  it  is  tbat  knigbt  of  Arabia,  tobom  3  no  loue  in  bart. 
ann  toill  nntill  bis  loue  3  toin,  tbougb  3  torn  life  nepart. 
£0  noto  pou  knoto  £  toigbt,  ©  ^ier,  tobom  cupid  caufen  me  to  loue 

'But 

1043  aboundance,  Ch.  1052  afraida,  Ch.  1057  can  not,  Ch. 

1060  yee],Jb  E.C.:  be,  Ch. :  thee,  conj.  Dyce. 

1067  Gentelman  .  .  .  knighte,  Ch.  1073  you],  ye,  Ch. 


1040 


1050 


1060 


1070 


called  Common  condicion. 

IBut  by  no  meanes  31  can  Deuife,  fum  toill  no  pitp  moue. 
Cbougb  oftentimes  31  did  intreate,  ftill  cafting  Uame  a  fiDe, 
as  often  be  refufeD  tbe  fame,  ano  dill  mp  fute  oenpoe. 
Lo  noto  mp  %>ier,  pou  fenoto  tbe  toigbt  tobofe  figfjt  batb  peril  mp 
Cbat  foj  bis  fake  3!  map  not  take  at  all  mp  quiet  reft.  (bjeft 

%>ix  Nomides,  ba  ba  Sabia,  nata  te  mana  oat  caufes  pou  be  fefce  fo  Mounta<g.> 
1080  9$ee  feno  toell  pou  loue  te  man  bp  gooo  fenolega  longa  go, 
axKell  Sabia  come  borne  <to>  pour  faoers  boufe,  mit  out  oelap, 
JFo?  me  toill  go  fpealte  mit  %/.  Nomideza  ftraigbt  toeap. 
ano  me  can  mit  mp  cunninga  me  toill  marp  pou  ttoame, 
Cerfoie,  Sabia,  come  borne  to  pour  faters  boufe  me  fap  againe. 

ges  fatber  fitb  tbat  it  is  pour  toill,  31  reap  am  to  toapgbt.         Sabia. 
dftlell  ten  com  atoap,  Sabia,  mit  pour  fater  ftraigbt.   Exit  Mounta.  Mountag 

ab  cruell  crabbeD  curift)  impe,  ab  ftubbojn  ftrong  ftonp  bart,      Sabia. 
Cbat  can  conftraine  a  laop  fo  to  fuffer  DeDlp  fmart. 
©oto  canft  tbou  fafelp  toitjjout  ftame  Denap  a  lanies  proffer  f 
io9o  percbance  tbou  mapft  liue  tbiiiz  fo  long  ano  neuer  baue  lifee  offer 
3b  beauenlp  potoers  Do  graunt  tbat  be  map  tafte  of  mp  like  paine 
anD  graunt  be  fancp  one  tobofe  loue  be  neuer  fljall  attaine. 
anD  furies  all  agree  in  one  to  bjople  toitbin  ber  bjeft, 
Wbom  be  Qiait  fanfp  in  fucb  fo?t  tbat  Hjee  map  bim  Deteft. 
Cben  fenoto  3f  tbat  be  feeles  mp  paine,  tben  tafterb  bee  mp  greife, 
Cben  bope  31  tbat  in  time  be  toill  of  mee  taite  fome  releife. 
ano  tbat  tbe  fame  map  come  to  pas  Alecto  perce  ber  bjeft, 
Cbat  amongft  all  fte  vetoes  toitb  epe,fte  map  bim  moft  oeteft 
§>o  bope  31  tbat  in  time  31  ftall  perforce  obtaine  bin  loue, 
nooCb^ougb  cunning  ffeill  of  fatber  mine,  anD  belpe  of  goDs  aboue. 
IF^ere  entretb  Lamphedon  lamentinge. 
A  ©  goDs  boto  baue  31  bin  tbjougb  Pirats  fojce  on  feas  furpjeft?  Lamphe 

ftHben  tbat  toe  tbougbt  moft  quietlp  from  foes  to  faple  at  reft, 
©oto  baue  tbe  goos  bin  cbangable,  oj  mutabell  in  tbis  cafe? 
ipoto  baue  31  bin  on  tumblinge  toaues  fo?c  toft  from  place  to  place 
ij)oto  Dio  tbote  cruell  Pirats  tbep  mp  cojps  caft  into  feas? 
anD  pelDeo  me  to  Neptunes  toaues  to  carp  me  tobere  be  pleaie. 
JE)oto  rigo?ouflp  Delt  tbep  toitb  mee  anD  mp  Clarifia  Deare? 
2Bbo  31  knoto  toell  toitb  crueltp  toas  D^otoneo  toitb  me  tbere. 
ab  pe  potoers,  in  LaDp  mine  bereft  of  life,  o?  Do  31  but  furmifef 

1079  (margin)  Mount,  Ch. :  Monuta<g.>,  E.  C.  1080  long  a  go,  Ch. 

108 1   to,  add.  Brandl.\  cf.  line  1084. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


€>?  no  31  but  imagine  fo,  o?  Do  31  but  neuifef  mo 

SDeuife  tobat  neoe  31  to  Deuife  on  tbat  toitb  eares  31  beam? 
Ctjcn  tojetcb  unto  tbp  eares  of  fojce  tbou  mud  giue  moil  regaroe 
Delt  not  tfjep  cruellp  toitb  rbcef  tjjen  tobat  caufe  ban  tbep  to  flap 
16ut  tootfte  tbp  laoies  finall  eno,  as  tbou  tiioefl  fjere  tbem  fap? 
©oto  can  tbc  ftoelling  toaues  enclofe  tbat  tenner  cojps  of  tbme? 
*£>oto  coulo  tbe  cruell  goo  of  feas  fo  aeto  tbp  lateft  fine, 
a  Zepherus,  tooulO  tbou  fjaoft  clofD  mp  loue  in  tbp  ftoeete  blafl, 
aBjjen  Ipirats  floung  ber  ouerbouro,  anO  on  foft  grouno  Fjer  call, 
ftOfnj  toas  it  not  mp  cbance,  alas  to  eno  mp  oapes  in  floors 
Wbv  DiH  tbe  potoers  afline  to  mee  to  lano  in  place  fo  gocof        nzo 
^a  to^etcb  bafl  tbou  fo?  got  tbat  latip  tbine  in  feas  is  tyountj? 
Djato  fojtb  tbp  lingering  blaoe  toitb  fpeeDe,  9  giue  tbp  felf  a  tooito, 
§>itb  tbat  ber  top  teas  iop  to  tbee,  let  ber  ocatb  be  tbine  alfo, 
3no  toitb  tbis  goring  blaoe  of  tbine  oeuioe  tbis  bart  from  too. 

Ulcere  entretb  tbe  mariners  toitb  a  fonge. 

Hulielp,  luflelp,  luttelp,  let  tos  iavlt  &$), 
El)e  tot  nfce  trim  Doti)  feme  tos,  it  blotoes  at  tf)e  no$) 

2UI  ftinges  toee  ftaue  readp  and  nothing  toee  toant, 
Co  furniil)  our  0)ip  ttjat  rtoeri)  fcerebp: 
fllitfais  anD  toeapons  tJ)ep  be  nothing  f  ftant, 
3Ufte  too$)p  mariners  our  felues  toee  toill  ftp, 
JUtftelp  luflelp,  g& 

$er  flagges  be  neto  trimmer  fet  flanting  aloft. 
£>ur  flnp  fi»  f  toift  f  toimming  oi)  fliee  DotI)  ejreeii, 
JKHee  feare  no  enemies,  toe  Ijaue  efcapeti  tljem  oft, 
Cf  all  (hips  that  ftoimmeth  (hee  bareth  tbe  belt 
3luflelp,luftelp,$c* 

#nfc  here  is  a  mafter  ejccelleth  in  i ftill, 
3ttti)  our  matters  mate  hee  is  not  to  feefte: 

and 

1 120  afline],  afligne,  Ch.  1121  forgot,  Ch. 

1 124  deuide,  w«/.  Manly\  deride  in  both  quartos. 


called  Common  condicion. 

2Lrib  I)ere  is  a  bote  float  tie  totll  Do  I)ts  gooD  tot  u , 
i  ,4o  £nD  l)ere  is  a  flbip  bop  toee  neutr  l)aD  5ts  leefte* 
3Uflelpluffelp,$c* 

3Jf  fortune  tljen  fafle  not,  anD  our  nejrt  titaDge  pjoue* 
aZHee  tofll  returnt  merely  anD  mafte  good  c&eere: 
;3nD  bouiD  ail  together  as  freenDS  Mnftt  in  loue, 
Z\)t  eannes  (baffle  filled  tottf)  tome  ale  anD  beere* 
3Luflelp,  iuflelp,  f  c* 

prap  liuelp  ftp  gogs  blouD  tbis  bootp  teas  fo?  our  purpofe  fit,      Mafter. 
It  Dotb  me  gooo  to  tbinlte  boto  3  tobotfD  bim  ouer  bo?D  pet. 
anD  it  tjotb  me  goon  to  bcarc  tbe  laDp  at  euerp  tuoojo,  Botefwa 

u5oDefire  as  not  to  tobotfe  ber  louer  ouet  bojoe. 

'But  ftee  migbt  crp  ber  fill,  foi  fljee  toas  neuer  tbe  foonet  bearD, 
JFo?  J  belpt  to  tobojle  bim  ouet  bojD  to  fret  crping  3  tofee  no  regaro 
fflftz  our  captaine  beam  it  bee  toas  in  a  rage  p  it  toas  Grange  to  fe 
ami  out  of  bano  tooulo  neeos  figbt,  ano  faio  it  toas  longe  of  mee. 

Seeing  our  captaine  is  gon  toitb  tbe  latip  to  Marofus  3ie  atoap,  Mafter. 
Let  as  make  bafie  a  ftipbojoe,  toitbout  longer  oelap. 
Content  jailer  toe  intent)  to  tarp  no  longer  bere.  Botefwa 

jftap  dap  pou  3mpes  of  limbo  lake,  3  toaigbt  pour  coming  nere  Lamphe 
3b  tojetcbes  tobo  banc  D?ounD  mp  loue  in  flouos  of  cruell  fojee, 
1 160  DefenD  pou  flraigbt,  fo?  3  fo  toaigbt  to  tojefce  it  on  pour  cojfe. 
fc&berfoje,  3  fap,  Oefeno  pou  flraigbt,  mp  fo?ce  pou  fure  flmll  trp, 

9b  tojetcb,  ano  art  tboii  pet  alluef  be  fure  toe  toill  tbe  not  oenp  Mafter. 
3b  got)0  tobat  cbance  is  tbi.s  tbat  bee  fljoulo  ftoim  to  lanDr 
3  repent  by  goOs  3  ftoeare  3  tiDe  bim  not  foot  anD  banD. 
T5ut  toell,  fitb  tbat  tbou  ffeapeo  art  from  tyotoning  in  tbis  cafe, 
Prepare  tbp  felfe,  eitber  tbou  0?  toee  (ball  eno  tbeir  liucs  in  place. 
fcOberfoje  ab  tojetcb  toee  tbee  oefp  as  enemp  to  tbp  face. 

3n  bope  of  toi&ojp  3  of  pou  in  mp  ftoeet  laoies  cafe.  Lamphe 

3no  tberfoje  tojetcbes  prepare  pou  to  Dp. 
1170     Cbep  toere  but  fooles  tbat  from  tbee  tooulD  flp.  (bi$  life  Botefwa 

l&a  goDs,  be  $  Dorb  trufl  to  mucb  bis  flrengtb  map  cbance  to  lofe  Thei  fig<ht.> 
©  flap  tbp  baD  cojagious  fcnigbt,  gooD  nctos  bereof  tbp  toife      Botefwa 

<ZE  U  #p 

1150  Defire  vs],  Defirous  in  both  quartos.  1170  were],  are,  Ch. 

1 170  {margin)  Speaker's  name  follows  1169  in  both  quartos. 

1171  Spoken  by  Lamphedon.  1172  hereof],  here  (hear)  of,  Ch. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 

<La>mphe.     q^p  toife?  ba  ta;etcb  p  anD  t&g  mate  baue  D?ouD  ber  co?ps  in  feas 

<Ma>fter.       ©a  no  fir  &nigbt  tbat  is  not  fo  rpgo?  fome  tobat  apeafe, 
9nD  31  Qiail  furelp  ftoto  pou  al. 

<La>mphe.     3n  bope  to  beare  goon  netoes  of  tbee,  J  fure  parnon  tbee  fljall 
^tanD  up  $  let  mee  beare  toitb  fpeeDe  tobat  tbou  canft  bere  ejcp?efl*e 

<M>after.       fflitlU  fitb  tbere  is  no  remeDp  tbe  trutb  3  fball  confeffe 

Cbp  laDp  ftee  batb  ftill  ber  life,  ann  arriueo  in  Phrygia  bere, 
15ut  going  to  Marofus  Jle  to  liue  as  captiue  tbere,  u8o 

jFor  tobp,  toe  fent  our  captaine  noto  to  fell  bir  if  be  migbt, 
Co  one  Cardolus,  tobo  Uotb  feeepe  tbat  3lle  bp  valiant  figbt. 
fcObom  tobcn  be  batb,  be  Dotb  enclofe  in  migbtp  turret  bpe, 
Co  fe  if  anp  Dates  p?eOime  bis  fo?ce  anD  ftrengtb  to  trp. 
0no  left  tbat  be  ftoulD  feeme  perforce  to  take  ber  ano  not  pap, 
Witt  (ent  our  captaine  tobo  toill  trp  bis  ftrengtb  botbnigbtfr  Dap, 
Onles  be  baue  tobat  is  bis  Detoe,  lo  bere,  ©  too?tbp  fenigbt, 
Ooucbfafe  to  baue  remote  of  mee  tobo  baue  erp?eft  ti)t  rigbt, 
ano  graunt  tbat  3  map  noto  Depart  toitb  tbis  mp  life  atoap. 

<L>amphe.     3fn  bope  tbou  baft  erp?eft  tbe  trutb  3  minDe  tbee  not  to  flap.     u9o 
Wtii  fo?  tbis  once  J  parnon  tbee,  Depart bence  toben  tboupleafe, 

<M>after.       cben  luftilp  once  mo?e  bp  gogs  blouii  to  tbe  feas. 

Wbv  3  tbinfee  it  be  mp  Deftenp  to  be  bangeo  o?  D?ounD, 

3  tbinfee  neuer  to  lip  in  mp  beo  fo?  a  bunD?eD  pounD.  Exit. 

<X>amphe.      JS>?OCeeDe  Lamphedon  CO?agiOUflp  Cardolus  ftrengtb  tO  trp, 

ano  eitber  toin  tbp  ioue  perforce,  o?  in  bis  bantis  Do  Dpe. 
§>ball  HaDp  tbine  tbus  liue  a  tb?all  to  tp?ant  fierce  of  migbt? 
^ball  tbp  ftoeete  LaDp  toaile  for  too  in  turret  Dap  anD  nigbtf 
H3o  Lamphedon,  let  footfteps  tbine  be  p?eft  to  Marofus  to  traDe, 
3n  bope  fo?  to  fubDeto  tbe  to?etcb  toitb  tbis  tbv  go?ing  blaoe.        1200 
Let  manlp  courage  tbere  be  ftotone  let  tmliant  bart  be  trieD, 
Let  not  tbis  p?ofereD  cballenge  eke  of  tbe  once  be  DenpeD, 
§>ball  mp  LaDp  liue  bis  t^all?  no  Cardolus  tbinite  not  but  3, 
Cbougb  tbou  baft  Hercuius  fo?ce  tbp  migbt  ano  ftrengtb  toill  trp. 
ffl)?  if  tbat  Cerberus  bis  migbt  DiD  reft  in  boDp  tbine, 
3  tooulD  not  Dout  fo?  laDies  fake  tbp  Dptall  Dapes  to  fine, 
fc&bicb  Dun,  mp  iopes  tooulD  neto  increafe  tober  fo?otoes  pet  berife 
3f  tbat  tb?ougb  belpe  of  migbtp  Marce  3  map  obtaine  mp  toife 

1T  ^ere  entretb  Clarifia  anD  Condicions 

^P 

1 173  mate],  qy.  mates.         1179  Thy],  The,  Ch.        1197  a],  in,  Ch. 
1200  for,  om.  Ch.  1202  the],  thee,  Ch.  1204  Hercules,  Ch. 

1207  be  rife,  Ch, 


called  Common  condicions. 

TV/Off Gtfc  clarifia  caff  Of  Care,  Condit 

1210         JFO?  pout  HO^D  Lamphedon  00  not  feare 

©e  10  in  bealtb  tbougb  pou  tbinke  bim  to  be  Djouno, 
ano  tbere  of  31  oare  lap  fiue  buno^eo  pouno. 

fl)b  conditions,  on  tbat  conDicion  3  tbinke  all  trauell  no  paine,  cla. 
31f  tberebp  31  mougbt  toin  mp  Lamphedon  againe. 
T5ut,  6a  alias,  be  i$  Ojotono  31  am  Cure. 

LaOp  Clarifia,  leue  of  tbis  talfee,  tbat  pour  greifes  Ootb  procure.  Condi. 
3lf  pou  toill  folloto  mp  counfell  ano  caff  of  all  tbis  oout, 
31  toill  oeuise  a  meanes  to  finoe  mp  Lotfi  Lamphedon  out, 

ges  conditions  3f  am  content  ano  oo  agree  to  tbp  toill,  Clarifia 

1220     Cben  in  one  refpefte  pou  muff  neeos  mp  requeff  fjerein  fulfill,  Condi. 
ano  tbat  is  tbis,  pou  muff  be  come  a  feruant  to  a  fenigbt, 
aftlfjo  otoelletb  bzxz  barn  bp,  tobo  Leoftines  bigbt. 
ano  tobilff  pou  abiDe  tbere,  mp  felf  toil  go  fearcb  all  about 
jftigbt  ano  Dap,  tmtill  3f  baue  founo  mp  lo?o  Lamphedon  out, 
3nD  toben  31  baue  founo  bim,  Doubt  pou  not  but  tbat  toe  ttoaine, 
Wiii  bp  a  futtell  meanes  conuap  pou  from  tbence  againe, 
footo  sap  pou  laop  to  mp  oeuice,  are  pou  berein  content, 

ges  conditions,  tO  tbp  COUnfell  31  COUlO  toell  COnfent,  Clarifia 

31f  tberbp  31  mougbt  obtaine  mp  louing  fenigbt  againe. 

1230     Doubt  pou  not  tbat  31  toill  omit  anp  feinoe  of  paine,  Condi. 

Ontill  31  baue  founo  bim  eitber  on  fea  01  lano, 
IBeleue  me  as  31  am  an  boneft  gentleman  bere  is  mp  bano. 
15ut  31  muff  requeff  one  tbinge  mo?e  pou  muff  cbange  pour  ufuall 
Leff  pou  being  fenotoen  all  our  tooes  tooulo  frame.  (name 

3no  toberas  pour  name  is  clarifia,  let  it  Metrea  bee, 
^bicbt>one,3l&oubt<not>butpourfenigbtingooObeltbpoulballfee, 
31  toarant  tbzz  mp  name  is  Metrea  tobat  foeuer  tbep  fap,  Clarifia 

COell  pou  muff  pour  felfe  to  tbe  fenigbts  place  take  pour  toap,   Condi. 
TBut  befioes,  pou  muff  counterfit  pour  p?ogenp  as  pou  map, 

1240  Left  in  tittering  tbe  fame  pou  too?fee  pour  otone  oecap. 

DOUbt  POU  not  Conditions  fo?  tbat  31  toas  bOjne  in  Phrygia  bere  Clarifia 

Cbat  is  fufi&cient,  tobat  foeuer  tbep  oemauno,  bouio  pou  tbere.  Condi. 
Wzll  Laop  bere  lies  tbe  reaop  toap  totoaros  tbe  fenigbts  place, 
Depart  toben  pou  pleafe,  31  muff  fefee  out  mp  matter  in  anp  cafe. 

Content  conditions,  ano  faretoell  till  toe  mete  againe.  Clarifia 

<£  itf.  gou 

1 22 1  become,  Ch.  1236  not,  om.  E.  C. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


'c>ondit.     gou  toill  not  beleeue  boto  31  greeue  at  tbe  parting  of  to*  ttoapn. 
Jd>arifia.     |  p?ap  tbee  tie  content  Conoitions,  toaple  no  mo?e  fo?  mee. 
Jc>ondi.      ©a  mp  goon  90.  $  mp  goon  ^0.  fo?  pou  31  am  as  fo?p  as  31  can  tie, 
<cr>arifia.     31  p?ap  tbee  leaue  of  Conditions,  in  Jjope  of  merp  meeting.  Exit 
<c>ondi.      ©a  noto  a  plague  of  al  fucb  Dilatns  p  caufeD  00  baue  fucb  gretig  12So 
©a  mp  goon  miflres  leaue  pou  of  pour  toapling  fo  fo?e  fo?  mee. 
JFo?  31  knoto  pou  to  toel,  kinDe  barteo  fo?  to  bee.  (toberfo?e 

3B6at  is  fte  gone?  baue  31  tiin  botoling  all  tbis  toftile  $  knoto  not 
U3ap  anD  fte  tie  gone  fo  foone,  tip  ber  leaue  ile  lament  no  mo?e. 
9b  fira,  to  fee  tbe  Dilfimulation  of  a  craftie  counterfit  knaue, 
Cbat  tip  flatterie  can  b?pnge  to  pa0  tbe  tbinge  tie  tooulo  baue. 
flHept  quott)  pou?  31  baue  toept  in  DeeD  to  put  pou  out  of  Doubt, 
(ZEuen  as  muted  as  toil  D?iue  ijalfc  a  Doufen  milles  aboute. 
T6ut  31  muft  laugb  to  tbinke  on  mp  Ipirats  filching  knaues, 
Cbeir  captapne  batb  boarDe  ttiem  tb?ougb  tbeir  nofe0  like  flaues.  1260 
€btV  toere  not  contenteD  to  make  me  captain  to  ferue  tbem  abo?D 
IBut  tbep  muft  make  a  ^arcfjant  of  me  toitb  target  anD  ftoojD? 
Cbinking  31  tooulD  Deale  toitb  Cardolus  if  be  tooulD  take  ber  atoap 
i!3ap  bp  pour  leaue  fo?  toeemens  caufes  ill  oeale  toitb  no  fucb  plap. 
jFigbt  tobofQ  lift,  fo?  mee. 

15ut  bp  tbis  meanes  3i  baue  DeuifeD  to  fet  tbe  LaDp  free. 
3I  tooulD  not  be  a  borne  agapne  for  fiue  bunD?etb  pounDe, 
3  Dare  ftoeare  in  one  botoer  J  ftoulD  be  botb  bangeD,  kilo,  $  motunD 
toell  let  me  fe  tobetber  lbal3l  trace  mp  Raider  fo?  to  finoef 
JLet  me  fee?  toelfare  a  bean  tbat  can  b?png  futcb  tbings  in  minDe.  1270 
31t  map  be  tbat  be  batb  beam  tbe  IPirats  fo?  to  fap, 
Cbat  tbep  tooulD  feno  bis  laop  to  Marofus  3iie  to  Cell  ber  atoap. 
9nn  tbat  be  is  gone  tbitber  to  toin  bir  from  bim  agapne, 
©ere  i0  no  remeDie  3[  mufl  tbitber,  ano  tbat  a  mapne.         Exit. 
%  ©ere  entretb  Lamphedon. 
Lamphe.  nn^ougb  Depe  Difpaire  Dotb  D?iue  in  Doubt  Dcto  bono?  to  Difgrace. 
Cbougb  D?eoful  Domp0  Dorb  Daut  v  minDe  being  in  tmcotb  place 
Cbougb  bart  i0  barDeD  to  bafarD  fo?tb  in  laDies  caufe  to  trp, 
againft  ber  cruell  crabbeD  fo,  anD  venture  life  to  Dp. 
get  muft  be  be  aDuifeDlp,  anD  in  fucb  kinDe  of  fo?t, 
Cbat  as  toell  tb?ougb  toit  as  ftrengtb  it  map  Deferue  repo?t.         1280 
Cberfo?e  Lamphedon  take  gooD  bart  like  Troyelus  in  ftrengtb, 

anD 

1248  M.  &  .  .  .  Ms.],  mafter  &  .  .  .  mift.,  Ch.        1250  haue],  to  haue,  Ch. 

1264  ill],  ile,  Ch. 


called  Common  condicions. 

3nn  liue  in  bope  tbjougb  fearce  affault  to  fopll  tbp  fo  at  lengtb. 
Cbougb  tbat  tbou  toant  Viyfes  i kill  fo?  to  imagin  tufi. 
©2  to  Deuice  in  rigbteft  toife  tobicb  toap  begin  tbou  muff, 
TBee  bolD  in  bart  tb?ougb  fearce  aflfault  tbj>  cruell  fo  to  fople, 
ano  eno  bis  Daps  to  merit  p?apfe,  o?  peelD  tbee  to  tbe  fpople. 
31  ftraigbt  toill  fammon  on  bis  ftieiu  to  trp  bis  fo?ce  ano  ftrengtb, 
3ln  bope  tb?ougb  belpe  of  mtgbtp  Marce  to  torn  tbe  fi'elD  at  lengtb 
Cbou  Cirant  Cardolus,  tobo  Doff  inclofe  toitbin  tbp  fo?tres  ffrong 

1290  jFaire  laDies  to  tbeir  mortal  griefe,  ana  p?oferft  tbem  fucb  to?ong. 
Come  fo?tb,  fo?  lo  Mawger  tbp  fo?ce  3lle  fommon  on  tftp  Ujielo, 
3ln  bope  to  fet  tbofe  llaoies  free,  ann  enti  tbp  Dapes  in  fieioe. 

f  $>ere  entretb  Cardolus. 
"\\T^at  tiaunting  tiatlet  Dares  p?efume  to  try  cardolus  ftrengtb?  Cardolu<s.> 

&Hbo  neuer  Delt  to  none  as  pet  but  fopleo  tbem  all  at  lengtb? 
SObo  Dares  a  liue  p?efume  to  treaD  toitbin  Marofus  jie, 
Crcept  bee  licence  craue  of  mee:  3lle  caufe  bim  flraigbt  requple* 
<H3bat  toigbt  aliue  Dares  once  p?efume  to  fomon  on  my  flbielDe? 
Wbo  Dares  p?efume  fo?  laDies  caufe  to  trp  mp  ftrengtb  in  fielD? 
3no  pet  mp  tbougbt  31  bearD  fome  one  to  fomon  on  tbe  fame. 

1300  Cpfy  cardolus,  be  is  fleD  fo?  D?eDe  anD  biDes  bis  beD  for  ftame, 

jI3o  cardolus,  tbinke  not  but  31  tobo  p?efent  bere  Do  ftanD,         Lamph<e.> 
Dare  trp  tbp  ftrengtb  toitb  co?age  boulD,  $  fople  tbee  banD  to  banD. 
(Klbat  tbinbeft  tbou  tbat  31  come  to  tbee,  to  fomon  on  tbp  ftieloe, 
^nD  Dare  not  Deto  tbp  toarliiie  Uotoe,  tbat  tbou  Doft  make  in  ficlDf 
ges  pes  cardolus  prepare  tbp  felfe,  if  fo  tbou  tbinkeft  beft, 
jFo?  lo  to  fet  tbofe  laDies  free  beboulD  31  bere  am  p?eft, 
3nD  tberfo?e  peelD  tbem  ftraigbt  to  me  from  out  tbp  p?ifon  ftrong, 
©?  els  prepare,  to  trp  tbp  ftrengtb  31  toill  no  time  prolong, 
aias  po?e  to?etcb,  tobat  meaneft  tbou  to  trace  from  natiue  fople  Cardolu<s.> 

1310C0  enD  tbp  Dales,  bp  me  tbp  fo  toitbin  Marofus  Jie? 

Cbinkeft  p  tbp  felfe  meet  matcbeD,  to?etcb,  to  Deale  in  figbttb  mee 
3ln  faitb  p?incor,  31  Doubt  not  but  foone  tbp  courage  coolDe  ftall  bee. 

3Bbat  cardolus  firft  let  tis  trp,  anD  toben  tbat  toee  baue  Done,   Lamphe 
Het  bim  tbat  Dotb  fuboeto  bis  fo  tiaunt  of  tbe  Diftorp  toone. 
jFo?  tobp,  tbe  toigbt  tbat  reckenetb  before  tbat  bee  obtaine, 
a^ap  cbance  to  recken  ttoice,  anD  tben  bis  reckning  is  in  Daine. 
#0  tbou  to  tmunt  of  Difto?p  before  tbou  gaine  tbe  fame, 

s^apft 

1284  deuice],  deuide,  Cb.        1285  Bee  bold],  Beehold  (Beholde)  in  both  quartos. 
1287  summon,  Cb.  1308  try,  om.  Ch.  1314  the,  om.  Cb. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


<^Ca^>rdolus, 
<^La^>mphe. 
^Ca^>r  dolus, 
<^LaVnphe. 
<(Ca^>rdolus, 
^La^mphe. 
^C^ardolu. 

<^L^amphe. 


^C^ardolus, 
<(L)>amphe. 


cardolus. 

Lamphe, 

Cardolus. 
Nomides. 


a^aitt  cbaunce  to  baue  tbp  Pecofes  tailb?ougbt  lotu  unto  tup  (bame 

anD  tberfo?e  let  us  firfl  begin,  anD  toben  tbattoee  baue  Doone, 

Let  btm  triumpbe  toitb  t)i&o?ie  tbat  batb  tbe  conquefi  tooone,       i320 

^aifl  tbou  me  fo  p?infeor,  tuitb  fpeeD  tben  DefenD  tbee. 

Do  tup  too?fl  Cardolus  J  feare  not  fo  J  intenD  mee. 

©  goDs,  fo?  toant  of  b?eatb  mp  migbt  beginnes  to  faple. 

Cben  iLuflilp  Lamphedon  tbp  fo  to  aflapie.  (grace 

3D  Gap  fir  &nigbt,  enti  not  tb?ougb  figbt  mp  Daies,  but  graunt  me 
a  to?ctcb  3  Denap  tbee,  fo?  3  intenD  to  flap  tbee  o?  31  fro  bence  trace. 

©  flap  tbp  banD  moft  tuo?tbp  ftnigbt,  ann  grant  to  me  mp  life, 
3nD  tbou  (bait  fee  if  in  mp  boulo  tbere  Do  remaine  tbp  toxfe. 

I3ap  to?etcb  tbat  ftall  me  not  fuflffce,  fo?  3  toill  firaigbt  fetfree 
ail  laoics  tbat  tuitbin  tbp  boulD  as  pet  remaining  bee.  i33o 

anD  pet  befioes  3le  enD  tbp  Daies  o?  3  from  bence  Do  go. 

©  flap  tbp  banD  mod  tuo?tbp  Itnigbt,  anD  tuo?feenotmplafttuo. 
ail  tbat  tobicb  apertapnes  to  mee  3  fullp  pelD  to  tbee, 
3lf  fo  tbou  toilt  oflenD  tbp  grace,  anD  parDon  graunt  to  mee, 

(H3ell,  3  am  perOuaDeD  in  mp  minDe  tbp  parDon  fo?  to  graunt, 
ail  tbougb  at  firl!  o?  toe  begone  of  uifto?p  tbou  Dion  Daunt 
get  (Jail  it  be  to  tbis  entent,  tbou  peerelp  flwlt  refine 
jFo?  tbis  Marofus  j|ie  tbe  tobicb  3  map  noto  feeepe  as  mine 
JFpue  bunD?eD  crotones  perelp  to  pap  at  penticofi  tbe  fame, 
D?  elfe  be  fure  tbe  fum  unpapD,  3fle  enD  tbp  Dapes  toitb  ftame,    i34o 
anD  efee  befiDes  ile  fet  tbem  free  tbat  in  tbp  boulD  Do  red, 
i£>oto  fapft  tbou  noto,  Do  anftoere  mee  as  pleafe  tbp  fanfp  befit. 

ffl)  too?tbp  fenigbt  3  graunt  tbereto  tbe  tribute  fo?  to  pap, 
anD  liue  tbp  tb?all  at  becfee  anD  call  tmtill  mp  Dping  Dap. 
anD  efee  befiDe  tbofe  laDies  tobicb  tbou  camft  fo?  to  fet  free. 
Cafee  bere  tbe  lieps  toitb  bumble  bart  3  peelD  tbem  all  to  tbee. 

<H3ell  tben  ftano  up,  cardolus,  firaigbt  anD  let  us  bence  Depart, 
JFo?  tobo  to  ueto  mp  laop  die  3  Do  Defter  tuitb  bart, 
ftdJberfo?e  Cardolus  come  atoap  3  cbarge  tbee  firaigbt  ttiitb  fpeeD, 

3  reDp  am  to  toaigbt  ^ir  fenigbt  toben  pou  ftall  tbinfee  it  neeDe.  i3so 
f  fj)ere  entretb  Nomides. 
A  6>  goDs,  tobat  toigbt  batb  greater  caufe  fo?  to  lament  tben  3, 

Cbat  caufeD  am  to  craue  tbe  tbing  tbat  oft  3  DiD  oenp? 
WlW  toigbt  tooulD  feto  unto  bis  fo  ujbom  oft  be  DiD  offcno  ? 

©? 

i33o  yet],  it  in  both  quartos  {perhaps  yt  in  author's  MS.). 
i336  Although,  Ch.  i343  the],  thy,  Ch. 


called  Common  condicion. 

£D?  mercp  craue  at  anp  time  of  cruell  crabben  frenn? 
j£a  Nomides  tbou  fo?fen  art  to  bote  to  Cupid  free, 
iEHbom  tbou  before  Oinfl  fo  abbo?  bis  captiue  tb?all  to  bee. 
U\ty  Din  3ffpi0t)t  like  retcbles  fenigbt  tbp  cunning  date  o?fo?ce? 
(Kftbp  did  31  eke  tbis  Defame  fpeake,  iufl  caufe  of  no  remote, 
©a  gons,  am  31  become  a  louer  nofr,  o?  fefrter  fo?  to  bee, 

36o&Hbo  earft  did  fo?ce  no  tobit  fo?  loue,  no?  fo?  cupido  fteef* 
aftjoulo  gons  frben  fi'rft  31  nefreo  tbt  figbt  of  Metrea  tbat  name, 
ftHbofe  cumlp  fauour  it  teas  tbat  fo?ile  mp  bart  to  flame, 
31  ban  bin  toefring  of  tbe  tbing  tobicb  man  notb  mod  oeteft, 
£ben  IbotiiD  not  toofuli  loucrs  panics  baue  b?opleo  in  mp  b?eft. 
^a  Metrea,  tooloe  gons  mp  fo?e  toere  in  tbp  b?eft  a  griefe, 
Cben  tooulo  31  notbing  noubt  but  tbat  in  time  to  fjaue  releefe. 
9j06p  Nomides,  ooofl  tbou  not  knoto  (bee  is  but  a  feruant  (bee? 
ann  tbou  a  fenigbt,  ann  toaliant  toigbt  of  famous  flocke  to  bee. 
Wftfl>  (bouinefi  p  ougbt  Difpap?e  berein,  but  bouioen  fo?tb  mp  bart 

37o  §>itb  tbat  tbou  art  confiraineo  tb?ougb  fo?ce  of  blinoe  Cupidos  oart 
iBut  ba  alas,  tbis  greeues  mp  bart  tbat  Leoftines  ber  jailer  bee, 
S>t  Ionge  batb  bin  fo?  fo?mer  grunge  an  enemp  to  mee. 
ftObicb  totll  bee  caufe  31  map  not  come  to  fpeake  toitb  ber  at  all, 
Boi  ucto  ber  crpftall  bcto  tobofe  figbt  it  teas  tbat  fo?ft  mp  fall. 
IBut  flap,  goon  netoes,  3f  fee  bere  enters  tbp  ilaoies  tooman  foole, 
<K3bom  (bee  fo?  cbaritp  toke  in,  ann  kepctfj  pet  to  fcboole. 
Jftoto  (ball  31  knoto  of  Ample  foule  tobere  mp  ftoeete  Lanp  is, 
©I  fenn  ber  letter  if  31  pleafe,  ann  of  ber  figbt  not  miflTe. 

f  $>ere  entretb  Lomia  tbe  naturall. 
W<2Ep  nelaning  nelaning  nats  a  goon  bop,  Lomia. 

1380      Cbou  (bait  go  toitb  me  a  fonoap. 

©a  barlaking  31  am  a  trim  fcboller,  ann  a  goon  toencb  inneene. 

a^p  lanp  fapes  ann  31  totll  learne  toell  ann  take  beene, 

%>btt  frill  giue  me  a  trim  tteluet  cap  toitb  a  fetber, 

Co  put  on  mp  bean  againft  eolne  toeatber. 

ann  mp  lanp  frill  make  me  a  trim  longe  cote  nofrne  to  tbe  grounn 

ann  if  anp  toil  marp  mee,  (be  toil  giue  bun  tfrentp  $  a  buo?eo  pofm 

s$p  lanp  can  nance,  fo  (bee  can  ann  31  mufl  learne  to, 

<ZEife  31  (ball  neuer  get  me  a  bufbann,  fo?  all  tbat  euer  31  can  no, 

ann  mp  Lanp  can  plap  tenull  tenul  in  a  paire  of  nirgine  boles. 

jf  ann 

1357  or  force,  Ch.  1360  Who],  Whom  in  both  quartos, 

1369  ought],  ought  to,  Ch, 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


9nu  31  tnufl  learne  euetp  oap,  to  as  foone  as  31  baue  fet  in  coles*    139° 
$£p  ilaDj>  toilbe  beate  anonc,  anD  toe  mud  toalke  togetbt, 
JX  it  boulo  up  anti  00  not  taine  tut  tie  faite  tucatrjcr. 
©ats  a  gooo  babp  crp  out  tban. 
ano  thou  fljalt  baue  a  napell  a  nan. 

<N>omides.     jftoto  bope  Dotb  fap  31  ftall  obtaine  tbe  figbt  of  Haop  oeare, 
3lf  tot  bet  fake  fome  papnes  31  take  to  flap  bet  comming  beate. 
31le  fail  in  talke  toitb  tbis  bet  foole  till  Ibee  apjocbe  in  place, 
flBbetbp  31  map  mo?e  familietlp  oeclate  to  bet  mp  cafe. 
8>oto  noto  faite  laop,  tobetbet  pas  pou  tbis  toap? 

<L>omia.        jfoj  footb  mp  laop  bet  none  felfe  Die?  h°° 

<N>omides.      flBbat  llitl  tbp  laDp? 

<L>omia.        s^atp  giue  me  leaue  to  go  plap. 

?N>omides.     mbo  is  tbp  laop  ano  tobat  is  tbp  name? 

<L>omia.        31  am  Lomia  ano  fte  mp  Haop  Metrea  tbat  late  bitbet  came. 

<N>omides.     j^oto  fapfl  tbou,  mp  Haop  Lomia,  toilt  tbou  cbange  cotes  ti  meef 

<L>omia.        Bo  tbinke  not  pou  baue  a  foole  in  bano  31  toataunt  pee. 

<N>omides.     Wby  Lomia,  mp  cloke  toill  become  tbee  ercellent  ano  bjaue, 

<L>omia.        atoap  3lle  none  of  pout  clokes  31le  tell  mp  laop  pou  ate  a  knaue. 

31  can  not  on  mp  laotes  atant  go, 

16ut  pou  toilbe  meoiing  toitb  maiOs  tobetbet  tbep  toill  o?  no.         »4«i 

3f  tbou  toetfi  no  boneftet  tben  31  tbou  toouloft  plap  tbe  knaue, 

15ut  Jle  tell  mp  laop  on  tbee  fo  31  toill  tobat  tbou  toouloeft  baue. 
<^N>omides.     Bap  Lomia  Do  not  ano  3lle  giue  tbee  a  penp  to  bj>  tbp  babp  clouts. 
<L>omia.        a  pou  mocke  fo  pou  oo,  pou  oo  but  flotots. 

<$afet  a  pcu  mocke,  potoil  giue  00  none  at  all, 
^N>omides.     i^ete  it  is  Lomia  to  bp  tbee  a  a^inefut  cap  oi  a  call. 
<L>omia.        £D  goo,  is  it  gooD  to  eate  gafar,  boto  fap  pou? 
<N>omides.     Cafte  it  Lomia,  tis  fome  bato  to  oifgei!  31  tell  pou  tceto. 
<L>omia.        £D  goo,  SD  goo  |le  tell  mp  Haop  ftee  toill  be  bete  bp  anO  bj>, 

Cbat  pou  giue  fokes  baro  geare  to  eat  to  make  tbem  ctp.  h*° 

©  goo  mp  Laop  come  to  tbis  bangman, 

ano  beat  bim  atoap. 

f  $>ete  enttetb  Metrea. 
^M>etrea.    j_j©to  noto  mp  Laop  Lomia,  boto  cbance  it  pou  Oo  flap? 
<L>omia.         6$p  LaOp  betes  a  bangman  toil  not  let  maioes  alone, 

TBut  giues  fofces  bato  geate  to  eat,  as  bato  as  a  bone,  (toitb  a  knife 
<Metrea>.    2Z>tti  be  Lomia  toe  toil  put  toatet  in  biz  pojaige  t  cut  bis  toll  meat 

1402  go,  om.  Ch.         1410  will  be,  Ch.       1414  mocke  fo],  mocke  me  fo,  Ch. 

141 5  yowil],  you  will,  Ch.  141 8  digeft,  Ch. 

1425  ends  page  in  Ch,  1426  poraige],  potage,  Ch, 


called  Common  condicion. 

TBut  percbance  be  is  inamojeo  of  tbee,  bee  toill  baue  tbe  to  W  toife 

3lle  be  none  of  bis  toife  n  p  laop  be  is  a  trim  bufbano  fo?  pou,    Lomia. 

31  perceue  tbougb  fooles  toant  oifcrefiKon  pet  tbeir  meaning  are  Nomide<s.> 
i  1430  JFaire  laop  in  abfence  pours  as  31  abjoaoe  Did  trace,  (treto 

3!  met  pour  femall  foole,  toitb  tobom  31  ban  confer  ranee  foj  a  fpace. 
©f  tobicb  31  bope  pou  toill  accept  tbe  fame  in  toap  of  3left. 
anO  not  to  iuoge  of  fimple  men  as  toemen  tbinfee  it  befi. 

Cbougb  toemen  Come  tbere  be  tbat  iuoge  of  men  DeuopD  of  ffeil  Metrea. 
Cber  are  fure  rbjice  as  manp  men  tbat  Heme  of  toemen  pll. 
ano  tberfo^e  fure  tbat  argues  not,  men  00  tbe  toojfl  tbep  can,       <Nomides.> 
3nD  toemen,  bj>  pour  ieaue,  at  times  toill  00  as  pll  as  man. 

flHbat  tbo,  %vi  fenigbt,  lets  leaue  tbis  talfee  3  am  no  pleaoer  J,  Metrea. 

get  bear  mp  talfee,  ©  perles  Dame,  ano  tben  feeme  to  replp,      Nomides 
1440     at  pour  requeft  a  tobile  Jle  (Jap,  pour  talfee  fir  fenigbt  to  beare,  Metrea. 

€be  bope  31  tbat  nougbt  but  treto  faitb  in  mee  fijal  toel  appere.  Nomides 
Laop,  $  toouoeo  oeare  tobofe  tenner  bjefl  is  pjefi  to  quarrel  grotto 
ano  fojceo  efee  tbjougb  fierce  alTaulte  to  peeio  to  rauenmg  bouno. 
j?o?  fpilling  blouD  to  iflue  out  from  tenner  bjeft  apace, 
TBeginnes  to  truDge  toitb  tripell  fteps  before  bis  foes  in  cbafe, 
€be  egar  bouno  purfues  a  maine  till  Dear  bis  fome  ootb  call 
3In  miDft  of  toap,  \x)bitb  plaine  Ootb  ftoto  be  nere  batb  run  t^  laft, 
€be  bouno  tobofe  nature  is  to  fenoto  tobat  fiate  tbe  Dear  is  in, 
jFoj  to  procure  mo*e  frelb  alTault  be  ftraigbt  ootb  tbere  begin. 
1450  ano  at  tbe  lengtb  be  pulles  turn  Ootone,  ercept  be  toater  take, 
aBbicb  if  be  map,  tben  is  be  fure  tbe  bounoes  toill  bim  fojfafee. 
^0  3|  tobofe  bait  is  clouen  in  ttoaine  tbiougb  quareil  fercelp  ftor, 
£bat  from  mp  tenner  bieft  tbe  blooo  lifee  fountaines  ojoppctfj  bor, 
am  faine  lifee  oeare  tb?ougb  greeop  bouno  from  bes>  fo?  to  Depart 
I5p  reafon  of  tbe  blinoeo  bop  tbat  nm  me  fo  fubuert. 
€be  bounos  of  griefe  tmberoio  me,  anu  Oiotoneti  me  in  cbace, 
©Bbere  3I  toitb  tripell  fteppes  tiio  flpe,  but  ti)tv  perfueO  a  pace, 
Cill  at  tbe  lengtb  mp  ftrengtb  did  toafie  anD  running  efee  Dio  faile 
Stoi  toby,  tbt  bounDs  of  Deepe  Difpaire  mp  fenfis  DiD  fo  affaile. 
1460  £be  frotb  alfo  is  reDp  cafl  upon  mp  tenoer  bacfee, 
JF01  \x)bj>,  alas  tbep  me  perfueo,  but  31  being  to  flacfee. 
iI5oto  toant  31  nougbt  but  toater  bjoofee,  tobicb  if  31  map  obtaine, 
©  JLanp  ocate  tben  am  31  fure  from  bounos  to  fcape  tmfiapne, 

JFit  Ho 

1436  Speaker's  name  omitted  in  both  quartos.  1438  Speaker's  name  om.  Ch. 

1454  herd],  herde,  Ch.:  hord,  E.  C.  1462  ends  page  in  Ch, 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


Lo  beare  oeare  name,  iuoge  of  tbe  fame  as  ligbtlp  as  pou  map, 

<M>etrea.       31  ftall  fit  knigbt  onto  mp  migbt  anD  fimple  fkill  bete  fap, 
a  curfeu  map  tbat  TB?ooke  be  fure  t&at  tooulo  not  pou  imb?ace, 
jtoj  tobofe  ftnccr  fake  pou  vuouuDcd  toere,  ano  eke  purfueo  in  cfmfe 
l£>er  filuer  lireames,  tmtoo?tbp  10  fjet  toounreo  courfe  to  keepe, 
ano  fo?  futcbe  an  enuious  offence  a  tboufano  toocs  to  teepe, 
TBut  if  31  toeare  tbe  16?ooke,  fir  knigbt,  ano  tfjat  it  lap  in  mee,       1470 
Co  apDe  pou  from  pour  cruell  foes,  ano  from  tfris  miferie, 
31  tooulo.  a23berfo?e  accept  fir  knigfrt  mp  gooo  totil  if  pou  pleafe. 

<N>omides.     JFap?e  LaUp,  in  none  but  pou  it  lietb  mp  fo?otoes  fo?  to  eafe. 
€is  pou  pour  felfe,  ©  noble  Oame,  to&om  pou  accufeo  tbus, 
(H3t)0  neuer  kneto  mp  gretf  before,  tbe  trutbe  fo?  to  Oifcus. 
gou  are  tbe  lireames  fo?  tobofe  ftoeete  fake  31  baue  oefireo  fo, 
after  mp  greeuious  toounoe  once  giuen  to  fkape  to,  from  mp  fo* 
accept,  mp  fute,  0  pereles  name,  oenap  not  mp  gooo  toil!, 
16ut  peeio  to  me  mp  toifteo  p?ap  to&icb  31  Befireo  ML 
ano  Jet  me  not  fo?  pour  ftoeet  fake,  ©  LaOp,  Ope  fo?  loue.  h«o 

<M>etrea.       §>ir  knig&t,  t&ere  (lap,  oemauno  t&e  tbinge  no  mo?e  £  toil  not 
31  am  al  reap  linkt  in  loue  toitb  one  tofjo  fairfjfttll  is.  p?oue 

4Fo?  tobofe  ftoeet  fake  Jfe  neuer  loue  if  of  &is  loue  J  mis. 

<^N>omides.     fcfflbp  *UOp,  tfjen  pou  kill  mp  fjart  fo?  ape. 

<M>etrea.       ftRfmt  nap  ?  take  a  man  to  plap  fucb  a  part  |  tbe  nigfrt  ftalbe  Dap 
Come  Lomia,  let  tis  bence  iiraigfit  toenOe. 

'N>omides.     flBfcp  iLaopf  t&en  mp  life  ftall  enoe. 

)M>etrea.       jQo  no  fir  knigfjt,  pou  neeoe  not  feare. 

jN>omides.     ©Hell  Haop,  fo?  pour  ftoeet  fake  tbe  greifs  I  beare. 

<M>etrea.       Come,  rife  Lomia,  ano  let  tis  fjence  atoap.  Exit.      i490 

<L>omia.        pes  fo?footb  mp  Laop,  foall  toee  go  plapf 

<©afar  31  t&anke  pou  fo?  mp  penp  to  bj>  mp  babp  fome  cloutes. 
£D  (©oo,  fmngman  pou,  31  fo?got  to  tell  tjjat  pou  oio  fioutes.     Exit. 

<N>omides.     ©  goOs,  boto  like  is  tbis  t{je  fuet  of  LaOp  Sabia  (Jjee, 

tofjo  feekes  ecbetoap  botb  nigbt  ano  oap  to  gapn  tbe  loue  of  mee? 
iftoto  map  31  Cap  tbat  Jjcauenlp  potoers  ootb  iuftlp  me  retoaro, 
JFo?  tbat  to  Sabias  p?ofereo  loue  31  tooke  fo  ligfjt  regaro. 
pet  Qiall  not  tins  Difmap  me  ougbt,  pet  once  mo?e  toill  31  p?oue, 
Crperience  IJotoes  faint  barteo  knigbts  tours  neuer  fap?e  laOies 
ano  toecmen  are  of  nature  fucb,  t&cp  altoapes  no  requier,     (loue  15°° 

Cbat 

1477  greeuous,  Ch.         1482  al  redy],  readie,  Ch.         i486  Lomie,  Ch. 
1499  knights],  qy.  knight.  1499  Ends  page  in  Ch. 


called  Common  condicions. 

Cbat  men  ftoulD  feefee  anD  alfo  creep  to  gapne  tbat  tbep  Dcfier. 

f  ©ere  entretb  Lamphedon. 
Q  (Sods,  tobat  toigbt  is  pincbt  toitb  papne  as  is  Lamphedon  free.  Lamphe 

fc&bat  fjart  batb  (jan  fo  foDaine  iop  ann  ftraigbt  fucb  miferie? 
Clarifia  fo?  tbp  fake  J  fo?ceD  nougbt  to  trie  cardolus  ftrengtb, 
3n  bope  fo?  to  fjaue  founne  tfjee  tbere  to  b?eo  mp  iop  at  lengtb. 
TBut  fja  alas  bope  faples  mee  noto,  erperience  plaine  Dotb  tell, 
Cbat  cruell  IPirats  o?otonD  mp  loue,  in  foming  toaues  tbat  ftoel. 
3ln  tiaine  31  tiiD  tbe  combat  figbt  toitb  ftout  cardolus  bee, 
&Q011ID  goDs  it  ban  nolo  bin  bis  cbaunce  in  figbt  to  baue  (laine  mee 

1510  iI5ot  Tantalus  in  bell  Dotb  feele  tbe  to?ments  tobicb  31  tafte, 
jI3o?  Sifiphus  tobo  rotolcs  tbe  Gone,  anD  it  rebounDs  in  balie. 
U3ot  all  tbe  jFuries  in  like  cafe,  no?  3Impes  of  Limbo  lake, 
%>cars  feels  tbe  torments  31  fuflapne  fo?  mp  Deare  HaDies  fafee. 
(Kiel  Lamphedo  fitb  HaDp  tbine  is  DeaD,  $  D?otoneD  long  time  fince, 
lP?epare  to  enDe  tbp  fcitall  Dapes  0?  tbou  Depart  from  bence. 
D?ato  foo?tb  tbp  blane,  feefee  to  muaDe,  tbe  b?eatb  tbat  lies  in  b?eali 
EtegarD  not  life,  fince  care  anD  ftrife  toill  neiier  let  tbee  reft. 
IBut  firfi  pe  agmfes  nine  refraine  from  notes  of  tooonteo  iop, 
anD  from  pour  inflruments  fo  ftoeet  to  toaple  mp  great  anop. 

15*0  jRoto  feace  tbp  plapnts  Lamphedon  to?etcb,  $  enD  tbp  cares  $  too, 
anD  riti  tbp  life  toitb  go?png  femfe  0?  tbou  from  lie  Doll  go. 
ana  potoers  Do  graunt  fo?  to  receaue  mp  foule  to  beauens  bit, 
anD  tbat  it  tbere  map  take  reft  tober  mp  ftoeet  laDp  Dotb  lie. 

f  ©ere  entretb  Conditions. 
CCap  tbp  banD  Cardolus,  fo?  31  COttie  not  fO?  tO  figbt,  Condi. 

as  31  am  an  boneft  (fcentilman,  anD  a  rigbt  courteous  fenigbt. 

©a  <£ods,  gooD  netoes  31  bope,  fo?  tbis  tbe  captain  fure  fljoulo  be.  Lamphe 
fcfflitb  tobom  tbep  fap  tbep  fent  mp  loue  to  fell  to  cardolus  bee. 
€ome  foo?tb  p  to?etcbe  anD  Graigbt  confelTe  tober  mp  Deare  laDp  is 
I3D?  els  to  too?fee  tbp  finall  enD,  be  fure  3  ftall  not  mis. 
1530     ©a  Cardolus,  31  minDe  not  figbt  to  gapne  fiue  bunDereD  pounD.  Condit. 

Cben  toberfo?e  DioG  tbou  Denter  to  treaD  on  bis  grounD  ?  Lamphe 

©a,  to  b?ing  pou  fucb  netoes  as  is  fo?  pour  eafe.  Condi. 

(LObat  is  tbat,  erp?eflfe  it  quicfelp  anD  feeme  not  to  leafe.  Lamphe. 

3if  pou  take  me  toitb  a  lie,  bange  me  like  a  counterfeit  fenaue.     Condi. 

Come  fo?tb,  if  it  be  fo?  mp  beboofe,  Deto  parDon  tbou  (bait  baue.    Lamphe. 

jF  Hi  ©a, 

1505  breede,  Ch.         1506  ha,  om.  Ch.         1507  fomyng,  Ch. :  fsming,  E.  C. 
1 5 14  fince,  Ch. :  fince,  E.  C.     1526  (margin)  fpeaker' s  name  after  1527  in  E.  C. 
1532  you,  om.  Ch.  1534  ends  page  in  Ch. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


Condi.       ^a,  toas  tbcre  euer  titilaine  in  fucbe  kinoe  of  takpng  as  31, 
31  am  fo  befct  tbat  tis  tinpofltble  to  Oeuife  a  lie, 
ann  Hall  pleafe  pou  cardolus  tbere  is  a  certapne  fenigbt, 
Commpng  to  tain  atoap  one  of  pour  Laoies  fap?e  tip  figftt. 
H3oto,  31  fo?  goon  toill  3  beare  pou  came  to  tell  pou  tbe  fame,       1540 
L r ail  in  fuooaine  at  ontoares  pout  toocs  be  ftoulO  cbance  to  frame 
JFo?  be  is  tbe  oerieft  fot  tbat  euer  loofet  cbampion  on  tbe  face, 
31  tiare  ftoeare  if  pou  giue  Jjim  a  blotoe  be  toouio  run  bence  a  pace. 

Lamphe.     3if  all  tbis  be  true,  31  tbanke  tbee  to?  tbp  goon  toill, 

"But  3  p?ap  tbee  erp?effe  bis  name  tbat  minoetb  me  fucb  ill. 

Condi.        ab  noto  am  31  reafcie  to  berap  mp  felf  fo?  feare. 

JFo?  31  am  in  Doubt  tbat  Lamphedon  alreanp  batb  bin  beare. 
(RHell  tobitber  be  batb  0?  not,  the  trutb  neeoes  3  mud  fap, 
leafl  31  beepng  p?oueo  contrarie,  fljouin  too?ke  mp  otone  oecap: 
J&a  ano  flmll  pleafe  pou,  Lamphedon  is  bis  name.  iS5o 

€be  oukes  funne  of  Phrygia,  tbat  p?etenoetb  tbe  fame. 

Lamphe.     $>a  to?etcbe  tobere  is  mp  LaOp  tbou  b?ougbts  to  fel  to  Card,  bee 
Confeffe  tbe  troutbe,  0?  be  tbou  fure  tbp  oapes  foone  enoeo  ftalbe. 

Condi.        $>a  Cardolus,  flap  tbp  banD,  tie  figbt  fo?  no  Laop  % 

Lamphe.     ji3o  to?etcbe  mp  name  is  Lamphedon  $  tbat  tbou  foone  Halt  trie 

Condi.        3iefu0  knoto  pou  not  me,  3  am  conditions  pour  man, 
ano  fo?  naugbt  els  but  to  feeke  pou  onlp  31  bitber  ran. 

Lamphe.     Conditions  ftano  top,  31  baue  fuboueo  cardolus  $  am  neuer  £  near 
ano  baue  fet  all  bis  captiues  free  but  ciarifia  is  not  tbeare, 
aBbicbe  b?eeoetb  mp  care,  ano  impairetb  mp  toealtb.  1560 

Condi.        iBe  of  goon  cbeare,  noble  Lamphedon,  pour  Laop  is  in  bealtb. 
TBut  is  in  Phrygia  as  a  fcruant  toitb  Leoftines  bee, 
ano  liuetb  in  great  greif  ano  miferie. 
JFo?  tobp,  fte  tbinfes  pou  not  aliue  but  0?otonO  tbis  is  plaine. 

Lamphe.     53a  ®oos  is  tbis  true  Conditions,  ano  oofl  tbou  not  faine? 

Condit.       3lefus,  tobp  toben  Oio  pou  take  me  Wtf^  a  liei* 

IBe  bouio,  tbat  tobicb  31  once  fap,  3  toill  not  oenie. 

Lamphe.     J^oto  came  mp  Haop  to  be  a  feruant  31  P?ap  tbee  erp?e(Fe 

Cond.         as  toee  trace  on  our  toap  tbe  toboie  to  pou  31  Hall  confefle. 

IBut  tobere  is  Cardolus, noble  knigbt,  tbat  be  is  not  in  place?       1570 

Lam.  31  baue  parooneo  bim,  conoitions,  ano  graunteo  bim  grace, 

(Kpon  condition  be  (ball  neuer  offeno  laop  agapnc, 

ano 

1543  apace,  Ch.  1548  whether,  Ch.         1549  my],  myne,  Ch. 

1550  and],  and  it,  Ch.       1551  pretended,  Ch.       i$$z  Cardolus  he,  Ch, 
1557  but,  otn.  Ch.  1 57 1  ends  page  in  Ch. 


called  Common  condicions. 

ano  efee  to  pelo  me  tribute  tobilfl  life  bee  ootb  retaine. 

flBell  tben  let  tos  lie  3foging  totoaros  pour  laop  apace,  Condi. 

£bat  is  tbe  place  to  tobicb  31  mod  Oefier  foj  to  trace.  Lamphe. 

(KB&erfoje  toitb  fpeeoe,  condicions,  come  let  tis  atoap,  Exit. 

IPjoceetie  on  fo?  by  pour  leaue  31  minoe  not  bere  to  flap.  Condi. 

31  tooulo  it  ban  bin  mp  cbance  to  trie  toitb  Cardolus  bee. 
lj)a  tis  a  frontier  tbat  futcb  flrengtb  in  a  litle  mans  arme  Iboulo  be 
iS8o  TBut  bp  pour  leaue  tis  goon  to  be  merp  ano  toife  tbe  trutb  to  fap, 
Cis  not  foi  tbt  toeafee  bart  toitb  tbt  iLion  fo?  to  plap. 
221el  tbere  is  no  remeoie,  3f  muG  after  mp  mafler  Lamphedon  bee. 
JFoi  31  Hare  f toear  bee  tbinfees  it  ionge  till  toitb  bis  Haop  bee  bee, 

f  ©ere  entretb  Leoftines  fottb  Metrea. 

r  aop  Metrea,  ano  feruant  efee,  attentiue  be  toitb  fpeeoe.  Leoftines 

JFo?  tubp  to  refl  tbp  faitbfull  freino  beboloe  3!  &aue  Oecreeoe. 
%>itb  tbat  tbe  potoers  baue  lent  to  me  none  b*W  fo*  to  eniop 
$£p  Lojo&ip  great  toben  fillers  tbjee  ftall  bjeeoe  mp  laft  anop, 
ano  fitb  in  futcb  Grange  feinoe  of  fo*t  tbou  bapneoft  to  mee. 
Cbou  ftalt  from  tbis  time  fotfb,  oeare  oame,  no  mo?e  a  feruant  be 

1590  TBut  31  toill  take  tbee  as  mp  otone,  ano  onlp  oaugbter  Oeare, 
JFo?  tbat  31  fe  tiirginitie  in  tbee  Ootb  flill  appeare. 
0no  toben  tbat  Oeatb  ftall  eno  mp  oaies,  9  3  to  grouno  am  tbjotone 
JFoj  tiertues  tbat  in  pou  toee  fe  receaue  euen  as  tbine  otone 
$#p  lanoes  ano  lojoftips  euerp  oeal,  but  if  tbe  potoers  graunt  life, 
Witt  toill  no  tobat  tbere  lietb  in  tis,  to  fpoufe  tbee  as  a  toife 
Glnto  fome  linigbt  of  famous  fiocfee,  ano  fo  prefer  tbp  Gate, 
31n  matcbpng  tbee  toitb  futcb  a  one,  as  ftall  tbee  not  fojfafee. 
Lo  bere  oeare  oame  accept  mee  flill  euen  as  tbp  onlp  filer, 
9no  toben  p  toants,  affee  tobat  tbou  toilt,  tbou  ftait  Jjaue  tbp  tiefiet 

1600     iRigbt  louing  lojoe  Leoftines,  ano  onlp  mafler  efee,  Metrea. 

(IBbofe  bart  is  let  ano  alio  bent  mp  onlp  iopes  to  feefee : 
Do  graunt  pour  fimple  feruant  bere  to  titter  foo^tb  ber  minoe, 
anti  tben  accept  ber  as  tbe  i^  ano  as  pou  00  ber  finoe. 

Wb}>  Metrea,  affee  tobat  tbOU  toilt,  31  am  COntenteO  %  Leoftines. 

Cben  aptie  Appoiio  pieafant  a&ufe  mee  rigbtlp  to  replp.  Metrea. 

fcigbt  reuereno  lojOe  Leoftines,  ano  jailer  in  lifee  cafe, 
3  peelo  pour  bigbnefle  intire  tbanfees,  ano  if  tbe  goos  graunt  grace, 
3  ftall  pour  fimple  founoiing,  bere  flill  oetotifull  remaine. 
<£lfe  tbt  beauens  me  confume  toitb  fpeeoe,  9  eno  mp  oaies  to  paine 

1574  ioggyng,  Ch.         1575  for,  om.  Ch.         1580  by],  be,  Ch. 
1607  ends  page  in  Ch.  1608  fondlyng  .  .  .  duetifully,  Ch. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


31  am  pour  fimpell  feruant  fjere,  anD  dill  tooulD  glaoip  refi,  1610 

TBut  tbat  pour  bigbnes  batb  DeuifD  tobat  fo?  mp  Gate  is  befl. 
pet  baue  3  one  tfjing  to  DemaunD,  HD  too?tbp  lo?De,  of  tbee, 
fcUbicb  if  3f  map  obtaine,  3f  Doubt  in  bappp  date  to  bee. 

Leoftines.     wfo$  tobat  is  tbat  mp  Metrea  ?  no  flraigbt  erp?eiFe  tbe  fame, 

Metrea.       cis  all  mp  tobole  Defier,  oeare  Ho?De,  to  game  a  Dirgins  name. 

Leoftines.     ftHbp  Metrea,  tobat  ftouio  pou  fo  Uefier  to  liue  in  fucb  a  folum 
3nU  tjj?ougb  pour  fingel  life  in  time,  to  gain  some  mis  report i  (fo?t 
Ifllbv  ftouio  pou  efee  DifDaine  tbe  Gate  of  toeDlocfee  in  tbis  cafe^ 
flD?  feeme  fo?  to  abufe  tbe  lata  of  lunos  noble  grace? 
U3o  Do  not  fo,  mp  Metrea  aeare  fitb  tbat  Dame  nature  Jbee,  1620 

^atb  frameD  toitb  ffeilfull  too?femanflnp  fucb  cumlines  in  tbee. 
Cbou  mapli  in  time  obtaine  fome  one  unto  tbp  louing  feere, 
3s  toill  tbee  count  bis  cbiefeft  31op,  anD  onelp  Darling  Deere, 
anberfoje  be  retolD,  perftoaDe  tbp  minDe,  incline  to  mp  requeft, 
3nD  31  toill  feefee,  if  goD  permit,  tobat  fo?  tbp  Gate  is  befi. 
(ESQbicb  ftalbe  alfo  to  tbp  minDe,  if  fo  tbou  toilt  agree. 

Metrea.       ge  beauens  flill  Do  firengtben  mee. 

IDeate  lo?D  Leoftines,  mo?e  to  fap  mp  tounge  unable  is, 

Co  renDer  pou  tbe  entire  tbanfecs  tbat  pou  oeferue  31  ttiis. 

pet  bope  31  tbat  pour  bonno?  toill  confiDer  as  pou  finDe,  1630 

&itt>  tbat  mp  tounge  unable  is  to  utter  as  31  minDe. 

^0  graunt  pour  fimpie  feruant  bere  to  liue  in  Dians  cbafe, 

jFo?  lo  ftee  fets  ber  tobole  Deligbt  ecbe  follp  to  Difplace. 

§>bee  fo?cetb  nourtt  of  lunos  games,  ftec  countes  tbem  but  abufe, 

Co  refi  in  true  uirginitp  fucb  games  fte  toill  refufe. 

iLo  bere,  Deare  lo?De,  Do  graunt  to  ber  in  uirgins  Gate  to  refi, 

JFo?  \x)^V  31  tbinfee  anD  Deme  in  minDe  tbat  fo?  mp  Gate  is  beG. 

3nD  not  fo?  tbat  31  tbinfee  mp  toit  GjoulD  pas  pour  noble  ffeill, 

TBut  from  mp  infancp  till  noto  baue  31  requefi  it  Gill. 

lo  beere,  Deere  lo?D,  on  fenees  3i  craue  tbe  fomme  of  mp  Defier.     1640 

Leoftines.     §>tanD  Dp  Metrea,  fitb  tbou  toilt  neeDs,  tbou  Halt  tbe  fame  afpier 
31  am  content  tbat  tbou  fijalt  liue  in  Dirgines  facreD  lato, 
%>o  tbat  toitb  out  mp  full  confent  from  tbence  tbou  neuer  D?ato. 
Bo  tbis  i^  all  31  binoe  tbee  to,  anftoere  mee  31  craue. 

Metrea.       jf3o  mo?e  31  toill  not,  noble  lo?D,  mo?e  tben  31  all  reop  baue, 

Leoftines.     ©Hell  tben  come  on  let  ds  Depart  toitb  fpeeoe  to  court  againe. 

Co 

1627  ftill],  ftlll,  E.  C.         1643  without,  Ch.         1644  ends  page  in  Ch.^  which 
lacks  tbe  remainder  of  the  play.    The  catchword  in  Ch.  is  No. 
1645  No,  Ch.  (fee  note  on  1644):  Oo,  E.  C. 


called  Common  condicion. 

Co  toapgbt  topon  pour  noble  Gate  31  toill  omit  no  paine.  Metrea 

D  goos  flnill  loue  of  goons  conftraine  mee  note  mp  kntgbt  fo^fafeci* 
©?  flattering  tooo?os  alure  me  once  mp  toonteo  loue  to  flake? 
i6So  %ball  p?ofereo  courtefie  conftraine  mee,  o?  moue  mp  fetleo  minne, 
Cbat  at  mp  louing  lo?os  returne  be  falfip  ftoulo  me  finne, 
K3o  no  Lamphedon,  fo?  tbpttoeet  fake  3lle  euer  faitbfull  reft, 
Cbougb  tbep  HioulD  feeme  tfa  go?ing  blane  to  perce  mp  tenner  tyeft 

T5ut  too  be  to  tbp  parent?  tbofe  tbat  nin  ns  fo  oifeas,  (Enter 

ann  caufen  tos  to  flp  from  tbem  fo?  n?ean,  tmto  tbe  feas.  Condi. 

COo  be  unto  tbofe  pirates  tljep,  tbat  Oin  toitb  cruell  bann, 
OBuen  o?otone  mp  loue  befo?e  mp  face  except  bee  ftoom  to  lano. 
2Bo  be  nnto  tbat  cruell  king  euen  of  Arabia  fople, 
CObofe  crueltp  toas  cbefeft  caufe  toe  tmoertoofee  tbis  topie. 
1660  ann  laft  of  all,  too  bee  tmto  condicions  tbat  to?etcb, 
3Bbo  left  me  bere  tmto  mp  grief  bp  futtell  craftp  fetcb. 
jftoto  am  31  fure  mp  ILo?o  is  n?ouno  tbougb  be  nin  beare  in  bann, 
Ulhtn  pirats  flong  fnm  out  of  ftnp  tb?ougb  fo?ce  be  ftoam  to  lano 
JI3oto  am  31  fure  be  Din  but  faine,  to  leaue  mee  bere  bebinne, 
ftOben  tbat  bee  fapn  be  toouin  a  b?oanc  mp  louing  Lo?n  to  finoc. 
a  cruell  craftp  peuift  elfe,  ba  flattering  fainen  frenne, 
Cbat  tb?ougb  tbp  fapneo  fo?geo  talfee  neceuenft  me  in  tbe  enn. 

3lefus  e^aoame  tobp  malte  fucb  lamentation  fo?  tbe  lofle  of  mee  Condi. 

$)a,  31  am  as  tbeTurkei  batb  loft  ber  make  g  mo?e  if  too?fe  map  Metrea. 
1670    fcftbp  Laop,  pou  baue  no  fucb  caufe  fo?  to  complaine.         (bee  Condi. 

ges  conditions,  fo?  all  tbat  tbou  faioft  31  fee  tbou  nooft  but  faine,  Metrea. 

H3ap  laop  tbat  ftall  pou  p?oue  contrary  pour  felfe  bp  ann  bj>,     Cond. 
Lamphedon  come  fo?tb  in  continent  to  nifp?oue  a  Ipe. 

f  l^ere  entretb  Lamphedon  imb?acing  bis  Lanp, 

'   Amphedon?  ba  gons,  tb?ice  toelCOme  t)MO  mee.  Metrea. 

ann  tb?ice  as  toelcome,  noble  name,  tmto  Lamphedon  bee,       Lamphe 
9jGbo  long  batb  toapin  toitb  penftuenes  tbe  toant  of  tbee,  mp  neare, 
'But  noto  be  notb  reiopce  in  bart  tbat  be  batb  founo  tbee  beare. 
©a  mp  neare  Laop  fo?  tbp  fake  31  ba^arn  nin  mp  life, 
ann  nin  fubneto  Cardolus  bee  toitb  battering  blotoes  fo  rpfe. 
1680  3ln  bope  fo?  to  baue  founne  tttz  tbere,  but  feinge  it  toas  in  name, 
31  fougbt  moft  nefperatlp  to  enn  mp  naies  toitb  cruell  paine. 
iBut  ba,  3I  baue  to  peein  tbe  potoers  moft  entire  tbanfces  s  p?apfe, 

0  3ln 

1669  Turkel],  qy.  Turtel. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


3ln  that  tbep  tent  conditions  bee,  elfe  baD  3  finue  mp  Dapcs. 

as  31  in  time,  moff  conftant  name,  the  toftolc  (ball  fljoto  to  thee, 

anD  partlp  31  perceiue,  mp  Deare,  tbp  conftancp  totoarDs  mee. 

Che  mhich  though  fame  is  blafD  a  bjoao  unto  tbp  lading  pjaife, 

3nt)  fimll  in  bookes  regeflereD  be  toben  Death  Hall  finDc  tbp  Dapcs. 

Lo  to  thj>  fame  mofl  confiant  Dame  report  hath  hlafco  this. 
<Me>trea.      anD  to  tbp  p?apfe  tbp  name  to  rapfe  report  toill  neuer  miffe. 

15ut,  ha  Condicions,  parDon  graunt  anD  mercp  eke  oftenD,  i69o 

foi  blaming  thee  toitbotit  a  eaufe  tobo  neuer  did  offenD. 
<Co>ndi.       iparnon?  boto  can  pou  affee  parDon  anD  do  him  fucb  offence? 

1Bp  pour  leaue  roome  tberfo?e,  31  niuft  neeDs  hence. 
<La>mphe.     iftap  Conditions  flap  anD  parDon  mp  LaDp  if  Qjee  DiD  offenD, 

anD  he  fure  fo?  tbp  courtefp  31  toill  retoarD  thee  in  the  enD. 
<Co>ndi.       3[  baue  bin  a  cutter  amongft  toemen  though  noto  at  the  lall  call, 

£Oeil  a^aDame  through  intreatie  mp  anger  note  is  pan. 

f  ^ere  entretb  Lomia  fo?  bit  mifteris  anD  the  Dice  iuflling  bir. 

<Lo>mia.    r\  <&od  this  littell  hangman  i0  iuflling  maiDcs  againfl  the  toall? 
jFo?  if  31  haD  not  flanD  fltffe  to  31  haD  catcht  a  great  fall. 

<Co>ndi.    fcObom  baue  toe  bear  margerp  milke  Ducke,  o?  flotoer  of  §  frying  i700 
©r  31one  of  the  Slakes  boufe,  o?  mifleris  Parian  f  (pan 

§>bee  hatb  a  face  like  a  botolet  anD  toben  fyee  begins  to  ftotone, 
Chere  are  no  mo?e  to?inkels  in  her  fo?beD  the  in  p  backe  of  a  goton 

<Lo>mia.       8$  attain  this  fame  hangman  is  luftp  $  can  not  let  one  be  in  tefl. 
Let  mee  a  lone,  31le  tell  mp  Lattp  fo  pou  toere  befl. 
0^p  laDp,  mp  lo?tte  ILeofller  p?aife  pou  come  to  bim  ftraigbt, 

<Me>trea.      ^tap  a  tobile,  Lomia,  anD  a  non  on  bis  honour  31  toill  toaigbt, 
8$p  lo?tte  Lamphedon,  come  anD  toentt  toe  hence  to  court  our  toap, 
Sphere  toe  do  minDe  mofl  fecretip  pour  perfon  to  conuap, 
Into  our  chamber,  tobere  toe  toill  atobile  our  felues  recreat,         ,7io 
anD  then  Dpon  pour  luckles  chance  toe  minDe  fo?  to  ttebate* 
anD  fo  in  time  conuap  our  felues  through  p?iup  fetch  atoap, 
ifo?  \xs^  to  liue  in  feruituDe  31  fate  ne  toill,  no?  map. 

<La>mphe.     5>a  conflant  Dame  unto  thp  fteentt,  tobofe  peere  is  not  aliue, 

Chat  to  gaine  thp  frenD  bis  copanp  Cucb  pleafat  featcb  canft  tt?iue. 
31  fure  am  noto  conflraineo  through  fo?ce  fo?  to  account  thee  toife. 

<Me>trea.        Jl3ap,  mp  loue,  not  31,  fO?  it  toas  Condicions  tteuife. 

Condicions 

1693  By],  Bee,  E.  C. 


called  Common  condicion. 

Condicionsf  ba  goDs,tfure  in  fucb  matters  tbou  Dooft  paflfe,  Lamph<e.> 

ftnoto  pou  not  boto  p  in  toemens  matters;  31  am  toifeft  p  euer  teas  Condi. 
1720     §>ure  fo  tbou  art,  but  laop  toe  muft  about  it  fecretlp,  Lamph<e.> 

Heft  fome  belonging:  to  pour  lo?oe  our  Dealings  cbance  to  fpp. 
3Bbicb  migbt  tb?ougb  tbeir  impopfeneD  bate  procure  our  care  ano 
9n0  fo  our  fecreats  be  oifclofo  0;  toe  from  fjence  00  go.  (too 

31  toarrant  pou  mp  lo?o,  pou  neeue  not  fo  to  feare.  Metrea. 

©Hell  laDp  let  t)S  go  fo?  3  Defter  fo?  to  be  tbere.  Lamph<e.> 

Condicions  ftap  tbou  beare  a  tobtle  tintill  toe  Oo  retier.         Exit. 
®ods  fames  is  it  euen  fo  toel,  Difpatcb  gentleman  3  bartelp  Defter  Condi. 
©a  ba  tbis  geare  cottons,  noto  if  ber  mafter  Leoftines  bee, 
i&neto  tbat  Lamphedon  in  laop  Metreas  cbamber  fljoulD  bee, 
i73oCbere  toere  all  tbe  fpo?t  ano  paftime  tbat  ftouio  ercell, 

<fcoDs  efaitb  3  care  not,  fo?  3  ttmll  tell.  Lomia. 

®ODS  fames,  Lomia,  tobat  toilt  tbOU  tell,  anO  Of  tobatf  Condi. 

©f  mp  laop,  anD  of  tbe  trim  gentleman,  ano  tbou  goooman  fquat  Lomia. 
Wbv  Lomia,  tobat  DiDft  tbou  fee  mee  do,  3  p?ap  tbee  Declared  Condit. 
I3o  no,  31le  tell  mp  lo?oe,  fo  3  toill,  3  Do  not  care.  Lomia. 

Cben  toill  3  tb?uft  mp  Dagger  in  tbp  bellp  bp  anD  ^  Cond. 

D  goD  3  toill  not  tell  ano  pou  toill  not  make  mee  crp.  Lomia. 

Cben  tobat  toilt  tbou  fap  toben  tbou  commeft  to  Leoftines  bee?  Condi. 
JFo?  footb  3le  fap  ttoas  not  pou  tbat  ftift  mp  laop,  ttoas  bee.       Lomia. 
1740     <£oos  fames  toilt  tbou  fo,  let  me  beare  tbee  fap  fo  if  tbou  Dare,   Condi. 
Bo  3  toonnot  fap  fo,  3le  fap  mp  laop  DiD  not  fpare.  Lomia. 

TBut  kift  pou  botb  firft  anD  tben  pou  Itift  ber  againe, 
fc&ben  3  come  tbere  3  toill  not  tel  of  pou  ttoaine. 
Wii\t  tbouf  tben  toill  3  WU  tbee,  anD  tbat  out  of  banD,  Condi. 

3  toon  not  fap  mp  laop  leao  a  man  to  ber  cbamber  bj>  tbe  banD.  Lomia. 
3n  faitb  tbis  geare  is  at  a  maD  ktnDe  of  ftap,  Condi. 

©a  tbat  3  toere  able  to  ftp  from  bence  atoap. 
€be  foole  toill  Dtter  all  to  Leoftines  tbat  ftee  batb  bearD  0?  feene, 
9las  Lamphedon  tbou  toilDft  toift  tbis  Dap  baD  neuer  beene. 
1750  <©ods  fames,  3  tooloe  3  toere  bangeD  on  fome  gebit  tbat  is  ftronge 
f  ©ere  entretb  Leoftines  toitb  a  lo?oe  0?  ttoo  mo?e. 
TV/T??  l0^e  31  maruell  tobp  Metrea,  abfents  ber  felfe  fo  long?       Leoftines 

3lt  feemetb  tbat  fljeetoapetb  no  tobit  our  counfel  geuen  of  late, 
Cbat  tbus  ber  toonteo  courtefie  ftee  feemes  fo?  to  abate. 

0  ii  3t 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


i 


<Lor>dcs.      jt  map  be  fo,  ©  too?tbp  Ho?De,  as  pou  baue  beare  erp?eft. 
Leo>ftines.     9$j>  Lo?oe  attenO  me,  31  map  not  reft  till  trutb  ftalbe  confeft. 
Lo>mia.        sg>p  Lo?oe  pou  toone  not  fe  mp  bo?D,  pou  looke  anotber  toape. 
Leo>ftines.     aftibat  Lomia  are  pou  beare?  boto  cbancetb  it  pou  no  ftape, 
3nO  b?png  mee  no  mo?e  too?u  from  pour  mifteris  agapne? 
/Lo>mia.        G&bv  fo?footb,  mp  Ilo?o,  31  tbougbt  mutcb  to  take  fo  mutcb  pain 
<Le>oftines.     (Habere  is  tbp  8£iftcri0,  Lomia,  tbat  toee  cannot  ber  fee?  i76o 

<Lo>mia.        |l  tell  mp  ILo?&e  on  pou  note,  becaufe  pou  did  beate  mee. 

flip  Lo?tJe,  31  toonnot  tel  mp  Lo?De  ano  po  toill  put  tip  pour  tbinge. 
<Le>oflines.     fc©bat,  w  tbere  anp  tbat  tooulti  feeme  to  flpnge, 

©?  p?ofer  tbe  foole  anp  kinoe  of  to?onge? 
LoVds.         3[t  is  but  tbe  fooles  faftions,  noble  Lo?oe,  tbe  time  to  p?olonge, 
Lo>mia.        s^p  Lo?oe,  31  tiiD  fe  noboop  kis  mp  Laop,  fo  31  titn  not  lato. 
<Le>oftines.     3  fee  tbe  foole  batb  baro  $  feen  fome  tbing  tbat  IJje  ftanoetb  in  ato 
<Lo>mia.        ag)p  Lo?D,  mp  La&p  i0  not  gon  to  ber  cbaber  tb  a  gentilman  ftee. 
<Le>oftines.     e^p  lo?Ds  boto  like  pou  tbis,  it  feemes  fte  batb  oft  trifcepueo  mee 
<Lords>.         HDf  troutb,  Deare  lo?De  Leoftines,  toee  neeos  muft  Deem  it  fo.       1?70 
<Le>oftines.     3f  tftis  p?ooue  true,  let  tbem  be  fure,  tbat  31  toill  too?ke  tbeir  too 
<Lo>mia.        ji3o  fo?footb  mp  Ho?De,  mp  Laop  Dio  not  fap  fo,  fo?footb  ttoa0  bee. 
<Le>oftincs.     QMbv?  tobat  uiti  be  fap? 
<Lo>mia.        ag)arp  giue  pou  poifon  to  D?incke,  anti  carp  mp  Haop  atoap. 

Hato,  31  Din  not  tell  of  pou,  toill  pou  beat  mee  anp  mo?e. 
<Co>ndi.         <$og0  toounDs,  out  of  mp  figbt  pou  crookeo  note  tobo?e, 

TBp  bis  toounDs  tobat  ftift  ftiall  31  make  to  fkape  atoap  from  bence 
31  ftanD  in  fucb  a  quanDarp  tbat  31  tooulo  giue  mp  life  fo?  ttoo  pece. 
Let  me  alone,  it  10  goon  to  faue  one,  a0  far  as  I  can  fee, 
31  toill  ftep  in  ana  affirme  tbt  foole0  talke  moft  true  to  bee.  1780 

^0  if  tbe  tooo?ft  fall  3  ftall  be  (ure  mp  felfe  fo?  to  faue  cleare, 
Cbougb  mp  Rafter  Lamphedon  anD  bis  LaDp  biz  it  Deare. 
^a  Lo?De  Leoftines  all  i0  true,  tbat  tbe  foole  batb  confeft, 
JFo?  31  mp  felf  Dio  beare  all  in  like  cafe  a0  i0  erp?eft. 
L>eoftines.     310  all  true  in  Deeoe,  map  31  truft  tbee  of  tbp  tooo?oe? 
Oondi.        3(f  pou  take  mee  toitb  a  lie,  tb?uft  me  tb?ougb  toitb  pour  ftoo?De. 
L>eoftines.     jf  all  be  true  in  DeeDe,  anD  if  tbou  Doeft  not  fapne, 

TBe  fure  fo?  tbp  courtefie  toee  toill  retoaro  tbee  \x^itb  gapne. 
TBut  tobat  is  tbp  name  31  p?ap  tbee  confelfe? 
<c>ondi.        #>rauitie  noble  Lo?De,  tbz  trutb  to  erp?effe.  i79o 

(fctauitp 


1770  {margin)  <  Lords >],  <Lo>mia,  E.  C.  1783  true],  loue,  E.  C, 


called  Common  condicions. 

(fcrauetie?  tbou  art  toelcome  to  our  court,  to  remaine,  Leofline<s/> 

©a  31  am  tbe  ancienteff  <fcentilman  £  euer  pou  did  entertaine.   Condi. 

Come  on  mp  Lotfis  to  me,  toitb  grauitie  9  tbe  foole  in  like  cafe,  Leoftine<s.> 
JFo?  toee  inteno  moft  fecretlp  to  bet  clofet  Ooje  fo?  to  trace. 
Co  fee  if  it  be  true,  tbe  tobicb  tbep  baue  confeft. 

Co  toaigbt  on  pour  bonour,  toee  all  are  bere  p?eft.       Exeunt.  All. 

©a  mp  gooO  ^afler  Lamphedon  anU  Clarifia  in  like  fOJt,  Condit. 

jFo^tune  batb  not  permitteo  tbat  longer  time  pou  ttoain  Umin  fpotf 
luoulD  it  not  greeue  pou  toiues  to  fe  pour  bufbanos  com  from  $  feas 
800  3nt)  cannot  baue  balf  a  nigbt.s  longing  but  eueri  man  mufi  fjim  Dif= 
TBut  nifeafe  0?  Difeafe  not,  if  31  toere  in  bi0  cafe,  (eafe 

at  tbz  firft  31  tooulo  euen  to  t^z  ben,  ano  upon  ber  apace. 
JFo?  it  tis  mp  tofe  if  31  be  a  beti  toitb  a  tooman  31  take  no  care, 
(Until!  all  tbc  Conftabcls  in  tbe  toume  at  mp  ben  fine  are. 
^oft,  tbep  are  comming,  alas  goon  louers,  pou  are  at  a  man  ftape, 
JFoj  toby,  Leoflines  be  tiotb  intenti  to  toojke  pour  oecap. 
&z  befit  is  not  fo?  me  to  flap  tbeir  comming  into  place. 
JLeaft  31  bee  taken  toitb  a  lie  tobicb  tooulo  mp  nopng0  oeface. 
T5p  pour  leaue,  no  moje  a  fapler  toill  31  bee, 
o  TBut  liraigbt  toill  31  Difguife  mp  felf  to  botb  parties  pou  flmll  fee. 


i»i 


f  ©ere  entretb  Leoflines,  ttoo  Ho^ties,  leaninge 

Lamphedon,  antl  Clarifia. 

(^©me  ^irs,  ana  fypng  atoap  tbofe  captiues  toitb  fpeetie,  Leoflines 

jFo?  tobp,  to  toojke  tbeir  finall  enD  31  fullp  am  necreene. 
©a  to?etcblelTe  name  tbat  tbus  toouloft  feeme  foj  to  abufe  tbp  Gate 
Co  feetie  tbp  filtbp  fonoe  nefiet,  in  futcb  a  kinne  of  rate. 
DiD  31  immagine  Dap  anD  nigbt  tbee  bigblp  to  eralt, 
ann  couioeft  tbou  feeme  tbus  faineDlp  on  botbe  fines  foj  to  bait, 
3ls  tbis  tbp  trirgina  date,  tbou  to^etcbe,  tobicb  fo  tbou  ni<n>ft  nefierf 
3(0  <tbis>  tbp  bollp  facrcn  life,  tobicb  oft  tbou  ninil  requierj* 
©a  carelefife  name,  aflfuer  tbp  felf  toitbout  anp  furtber  patofe, 
1820  Cbou  ftalt  toitb  tins  tbp  louer  bere  accotfring  to  out  latoes 
^ullaine  tbe  noome,  tbe  tobicb  pou  ment  fo?  to  beftoto  on  mee, 
Cbat  is,  fo?  pour  accurfen  crime  pou  botbe  ftall  popfonen  bee. 
ann  £  tbe  fame  be  ffraigbt  bjougbt  in  mp  lojoes  31  giue  pou  cbarge 
Straight  to  nepart  tmto  our  court  $  to  erpjeffe  at  large 

a  iij  Co 

1 801  difeafes  or  difeafe,  E.C.  1817  dift,  E.G.  181 8  this,  om.  E.  C. 


A  pleafant  comedy, 


Co  <£rauitie,  anD  toill  bim  ftraigbt  to  Depart  to  our  IPbificien, 
ano  bjpng  from  tbence  tbe  flrongefl  popfon  tbat  10  of  manp  a  one, 
3Hberfo?e  mp  lojoes  incontinent  make  all  tfte  baft  pou  map. 

<B>oth.       jiour  bigbne0  toill  3D  noble  iLojoe  pour  feruants  ftall  obap 

Leoftines.     Sbifparcbe  mp  lo?O0,  foi  til  tbep  come  toee  ftal  abiOe  tbem  bere. 

ano  caitif  toell  aflure  tbp  felf,  tbou  ftalt  able  tbi0  oeare.  1830 

Lamphe.      ©  U>eauen0,  boto  cruellp  oeale  pou  t&  us  in  cbanging  our  efitate  f* 
©oto  can  pou  fee  tbe  innocent  to  Die  in  futcb  a  rate? 
$)a  mp  oeare  laop,  mufl  tbou  fuftaine  tbe  Doome  of  oeatb  foj  mee? 
et9uft  tbou  fo?  no  offence  at  all,  tbjougb  ranfeo?  popfoneD  bee? 
8$uft  tbou  ©  Laop,  eno  tbp  Daie0  in  figbt  of  me  tbp  freenoe? 
J!3ap  firft  pe  migbtie  potoer0  aboue,  uoutcbfafe  mp  life  to  enoe. 
Let  not  mp  carefull  epe0,  ala0,  in  open  toife  remapne, 
Ontill  tbep  fe  ber,  ba  oeare  goD0,  tbu0  eno  ber  Daie0  tbiougb  paine 
©  noble  lo?De,  on  benoeo  knee0  ber  life  of  tbee  J  craue, 
let  me  alone  fuftaine  tbe  oeatb  tobicb  fougbt  tbe  fame  to  baue.     1840 
§>aue  bir  pooje  life  to  eno  all  ftrife,  tbp  mercie  00  oftenDe, 
§>eme  fo*  to  flap,  make  not  atoap,  tbat  tobicb  neuer  uio  offeno. 
C10  31  alone,  ©  noble  lo?oe  tbat  batb  oeferueo  tbe  oeatb.    (tyeatb 

Clarifia.       ©a,  boloe  pour  peace,  mp  louing  lo?oe,  in  tiaine  pou  toaft  pour 
§>eeme  not  to  craue  tbp  tieatb  alone,  mp  carefull  life  to  faue. 
%it\>  tbou  mufl  oie,  mofl  glao  am  31,  tbe  felfe  fame  oeatb  to  baue. 
©  noble  lo^oe  Leoftines,  ano  ^aifler  in  like  cafe, 
Qoutcbfafe  to  take  fome  pittie  bere,  ano  graunt  to  t>0  fome  grace. 
%>mt  bere  tbe  life  of  man  ano  toife,  tobo  neuer  tbougbt  a  miffe. 
€otoarD0  pour  ftate,  $  toojtbp  lojoe  aflure  pour  felf  of  tbi0.  ^50 

aitbougb  tbat  foole  Uotb  feeme  to  faine  toitb  tbat  l^arafite  alfo, 
^eeme  not  upon  tbeir  fo^geo  talke  to  eno  our  oape0  toitb  too, 
1But  graunt  unto  tbp  feruant0  iufl,  Oue  paroon  noble  lo?oe. 

Leoftines.     Leauc  of  tbp  fuite,  in  oaine  tbou  feekeft  to  baue  me  to  accotfie. 
TBut  tbat  tobicb  pou  b^>  lato  oeferue,  pou  furelp  botb  ftall  baue. 
fciUberft^e  refraine,  feeme  not  againe  of  mee  tbe  like  to  craue, 
16ut  00  prepare  incontinent,  ano  peelO  pour  felue0  to  Oie. 

Lamphe.      Cben  goO0  uoutcbfafe  fo*  to  receaue  our  foule0  to  beauen0  tit* 
f  ©ere  entretb  Condicions  alone  toitb  a  couereo  goblet. 

Condi.         ©a  tbe  <fcoO0  p^eferue  pour  ftate  $  feno  pour  bonour  long  to  liue 

pour  obeoient  feruant  batb  fyougbt  bere  £  popfon  tobicb  pou  mino  i86< 
Onto  Lamphedon,  ano  laop  Metrea  ftee*  (to  giue, 

1833  fuftaine],  fuft  ine,  E.  C.  1840  fought],  frught,  E.  C, 


called  Common  condicions. 

Jf  it  pleafe  pou  tbe  Dofto?  faies  tis  tbe  ftrongeft  p  can  ueuifeu  bee. 

<£eue  it  me  Lamphedon  3i  charge  tbee  to  tyinke  firft  tbe  fame,  Leoftine<s.> 

%>itb  tbat  it  is  but  uapne  refinance  fo?  to  frame:  Lamphe. 

Cben  mp  ueare  laup  bere  is  to  tbee  in  toap  of  our  lafl  greetinge 
€be  potoers  uoucbfafe  p  in  £  beauens  toe  map  baue  iopful  meting 

ftm  mp  uere  loju,  fitb  neeus  tbou  muft,  tbp  loue  Qiat  foloto  fttaigt  Metrea. 

Difpatcb  31  fap,  make  no  uelap,  fo?  long  toe  map  not  toaigbt.     Leoftines. 

i£>a  mp  ueare  Laup  tben  bere  is  to  tbee,  tbougb  lotbfome  p  it  bee.  Lamphe. 
1870     Cafte  of  tbe  fame,  fo?  ftraigbt  ile  frame  mp  lotfie  to  folloto  tbee.  Metrea. 

&a  beauens,  tobat  iotbfom  tbing  is  tbis,  £  boiletb  in  mp  tyeft?  Lamphe. 
ge  potoers  receaue  mp  fpirit  31  craue,  let  cojps  take  bis  uue  reft, 
©a  mp  ueare  parents  noto  a  ueto  g  eke  tcbz  faitbfull  freenue 
Lamphedon  bee,  toitb  bis  Haup  Uee,  tbeir  poutbful  uapes  muft  enu. 
jFaretoell  pe  nobles  ail,  faretoeil  ecbe  a^arfiall  knigbt, 
Wiitb  tobom  toitbin  mp  fatbers  court  31  often  Uiu  ueligbt. 
anu  laft  of  all  faretoel  mp  ueare,  ana  faitbfui  Laup  true, 
ftftbofe  beapes  of  gceif  31  &o  lament  anu  lotbfome  date  eke  rue. 
3nt>  noto  faretoeil  toitb  laft  atiue. 
1880     ©a  mp  ueare  lo?ue,  incontinent  31  minue  tbee  to  perfue,  Metrea. 

WitW  Laup  noto  prepare  pour  felfe  of  tbe  like  fauce  to  tafte.     Leoftines. 
§>eeme  not  fo?  to  lament  fo  longe  tbe  time  atoap  to  toafte. 
&Oberfo?e  Uifpatcbe,  take  tbe  cup  in  banu,  $  Utinke  pou  of  tbe  fame. 

©BO  be  to  tbee  Leoftines,  #  to^ongfullp  baft  fOUgbt  Our  Ueatbs  tO  Metrea. 

ftRel  toel  oifpatcb  $  make  an  enu  fo;  time  begins  to  Dane,  (frame  Leoftines. 
Lo  Leoftines  tbou  ftalt  not  fap  31  ffo  about  tbee  to  perftoaue.       Metrea. 
D  flap  tbp  banu,  mp  Metrea  ueare,  anu  31  toill  faue  tbp  life.       Leoftines. 
3ln  faitb  fir  knigbt  pou  come  to  late  to  gaine  ber  as  pour  toife.   Metrea. 

f  The  Epilogue. 

nr3lme  is  pi&ureu  footfb  to  ueto  all  bare  anu  baulu  bebinue, 
1890      fc&itb  fickel  in  bis  banu  to  cuttoben  it  uotb  pleafe  bis  minue. 
mnb  tbat  bis  fickell  all  are  cut,  anu  all  tbing  bjougbt  to  enue. 
as  toee  are  noto  b^  Cime  cut  of  from  fartber  time  to  fpenue. 
%>o  time  faitb  to  us  feace  noto  bere,  pour  auuience  mutcb  pe  to;ong 
3lf  fartbet  noto  to  toearp  tbem  tbe  time  pe  do  p^olonge. 

mbttfoit 

1891   thing],  qy.  things. 


A  pleafant  comedy. 


2Uberfo?e  toe  rentier  bumble  tbankes  (01  tbis  pour  courtefie, 

anD  foj  pour  quiet  patience  toe  tbanke  pou  bartelp. 

©ffence  toe  truG  toe  baue  none  mane,  but  if  ougbt  baue  fcapt  a  mis 

toe  pamon  afke,  anD  toill  amenD  toben  toe  knoto  tobat  it  is. 

9s  Duetp  binDes  foj  our  DjcaD  Ctueene  <2Binabctb  let  as  p^ap, 

Cbat  goD  toill  Gill  Defend  bet  grace  anD  bee  bit  Gaffe  anD  Gap.      1900 

H3oto  anD  altoapes  Lojd  bet  DefenD,  from  foes  bir  grace  lo#i  ftielD, 

3nD  fenn  bir  Neftors  <p>eares  to  raine  in  peace  bir  realme  to  topelo. 

loir  counfell  ilojdc  liketoife  p^eferue  tbe  Ij^eacbers  in  like  cafe, 

&bz  Commons  eke,  tbe  ritcb,  anD  poje,  LotfJ  fenD  tis  all  tbp  grace* 


FINIS 


1902  yeares],  eares,  E.  C. 


ERRATA 

p.  A3,  signature,  for  Aiii  read  Aiij. 

p.  B3V,  1.  415,  margin,  for  <D>rift  read  <S>hift. 

p.  B4V,  1.  477,  insert  full  stop  after  Exit. 

p.  C4,  insert  the  footnote : 

718   am],  am  on  you,   Ch.    (Cf  Introduction, 
p.  xii,  footnote  2,  last  line.) 


TREATMENT  OF  THE  TEXT 

THE  pagination,  line-division,  spelling,  punctuation  and  capitalization 
of  this  edition  are  those  of  the  original  in  the  Elizabethan  Club  library. 
The  numbering  of  lines  in  tens  has  been  added,  stage  directions  being 
omitted  from  the  count;  and  the  portions  of  the  marginal  stage  directions 
and  names  of  speakers  clipped  away  in  the  original  have  been  restored 
within  angular  brackets;  thus:  (Sedymond. 

The  general  typographical  peculiarities  of  the  original  are  preserved 
except  in  two  points : 

(a)  It  has  not  been  found  practicable  to  distinguish  between  the 
ordinary  double  letters  ZZ  and  00,  and  their  respective  digraph  forms, 
ZZ  and  03>  which  the  original  employs  indiscriminately. 

(J?)  The  size  of  the  type,  and  consequently  of  the  printed  page,  has 
been  enlarged  by  about  a  fifth.  The  type  in  the  original  is  of  pica  or  twelve- 
point  size  (20  lines  =  82  mm.)  except  in  the  songs  on  flf.  B  i,  E  iv,  and  E  ij, 
where  twenty  lines  would  measure  about  95  mm.  The  length  of  a  full  line 
is  increased  in  the  reprint  from  103  to  127  mm.,  and  the  height  of  a  thirty- 
seven  line  page,  exclusive  of  running  title  and  catchword,  from  152  to 
174  mm.     A  very  considerable  increase  in  legibility  is  thus  attained. 

It  is  sometimes  difficult  to  distinguish  between  the  forms  "y  "  and  "y" 
in  the  quarto.  In  cases  of  doubt  the  reprint  gives  the  form  required  by  the 
sense.  Minor  typographical  irregularities  are  discussed  in  the  notes  on  the 
passages  in  which  they  occur.    See,  for  instance,  notes  on  11.  943  and  1881. 

An  editor  is  hardly  performing  his  duty  to  the  reader  when  he  retains 
seriously  misleading  printer's  errors  in  cases  where  the  author's  text  is 
beyond  reasonable  doubt,  or  where  a  contemporary  edition  (Ch.)  offers  a 
distinctly  superior  reading.  About  forty  alterations  of  the  Elizabethan  Club 
version  of  the  play  have,  therefore,  been  admitted  into  the  body  of  the 
present  text.  All  such  changes  are,  of  course,  indicated  in  the  foot-notes, 
but  it  seems  worth  while  to  add  here  a  complete  list.  An  asterisk  indicates 
that  the  emendation  is  supported  by  the  authority  of  the  Chatsworth- 
Huntington  (Cb.)  quarto. 

Fol.  A  ij,  1.  12,  exceede  for  exeeede. 
„     B  ij,  1.  295,  is  for  vs. 

„    ^B  iij^,  1.  354,  *  mastery  for  mastery  (Ch.,  masterie). 
„         „        1.  370,  *an  for  and. 

57  h 


58  TREATMENT  OF  THE  TEXT 

Fol.  ^B  iijv>,  1.  427  (margin),  *(Aymbo  for  (Aymob  (Ch.,  Ambo). 
,     (B  iv^,  1.  445,  Who  for  Whom. 
,         „       1.  462,  did  I  for  did  I  not. 
,     C  (j),  1.  503,  atache  for  atacht. 

>         »      !•  5J3> tree  f°r  *fc*fc 

,     C  ij,  11.  580-583.    *Each  of  the  four  marginal  speakers'  names  raised 

one  line  in  order  to  connect  it  with  the  corre- 
sponding speech. 
,       „     1.  604,  *there  for  their. 

(C  iv^,  1.  720.  The  omitted  speaker's  name,^C/# .^,  supplied  in  brackets. 

D  (i},  1.  789,  *neuer  for  meuer. 

(D  iv^>,  1.  833,  by  your  for  by  their. 

D  ij,  1.  878,  a  god  for  aged. 

E  (iy>  1.  1079  (margin),  *Mounta  for  Monuta. 

„      1.  108 1,  (to}  inserted  in  brackets. 
^E  iv^,  1.  1 1 24,  deuide  for  deride. 
E  ij,  1.  1 150,  Desire  vs  for  Desirous. 
„     1.  1 1 70  (margin).    Speaker's  name  set  one  line  lower  than  in  the 
quartos. 
E  iij,  1.  1236,  *(not)  inserted  in  brackets. 
^E  iv>,  1.  1285,  Bee  bold  for  Beebold. 
(E  ivv]>,  1.  1330,^/  for  it. 
r  ($)>  1.  1360,  Who  for  Whom. 

F  ii,  1.  1436  (margin).    Omitted  speaker's  name  inserted  in  brackets. 
„      1.  1454,  *herd  (Ch.,  herde)  for  hord. 
F.  iii,  1.  1507,  *foming  (Ch^fomyng)  for  fsming. 
„      1.  1 5 14,  * since  for  fince. 

„      1.  1526  (margin).    *Speaker's  name  set  one  line  higher. 
<F  ivv>,  1.  1627,  *  still  for  still. 

„         1.  1 645,  *No  for  Oo. 
(G  iv>,  1.  1693,  By  for  Bee. 
(G  iiv^,  1.  1770  (margin),  (Lords'}  for  (Lo^mia. 

„         1.  1783,  true  for  hue. 
G  iij,  1.  1 801,  disease  for  diseases. 
„      1.  1 8 1 7,  di(d)st  for  dist. 
„      1.  18 18,  (this)  inserted  in  brackets. 
^G  iijvX  1.  1833,  sustaine  for  sust  ine. 

„  1.  1 840,  sought  for  srught. 

(£?  ivv^,  1.  1 902,  (fyeares  for  tarts. 


NOTES 

TITLE-PAGE,  11.  3,  4,  drawne  out  of  the  most  famous  historie  of 
Galiarbus   Duke   of  Arabia,    etc.     See   the    Introduction,   p.   xiii. 
"  W.  K.,"  the  reviewer  of  Brandl's  edition  in  the  Jahrbuch  of  the 
German  Shakespeare  Society,  throws  out  the  suggestion  that  the  ultimate 
source  of  the  play  may  have  been  some  Greek  romance :  "  Der  Stoff 
scheint  in  letzter  Linie  auf  griechische  Romane  zurtickzugehen,  eine 
italienische  Novelle  diirfte  dabei  die  Vermittlerrolle  gespielt  haben." 
Title-page,  The  Players  names.    Metrea  and  Nomides,  listed  here  as  distinct 
characters,  are  the  same  persons  as  Clarisia  and  Sedmond.    Otherwise 
the  roll  of  dramatis  fersonae  is  correct  save  for  the  omission  of  the 
Epilogue  and  the  lords  attendant  upon  Leostines  (11.  1 751-1796, 181 1- 
1888). 
Title-page,  Six  may  play  this  Comedie.    Six  appears  to  have  been  the  usual 
number  of  actors  in  a  travelling  company.    See  Hamlet,  II,  ii,  332-339, 
where  the  conventional  roles  are  enumerated :  the  king,  the  adventurous 
knight,  the  lover,  the  humorous  man,  the  clown,  and  the  lady.    Such 
a  distribution  of  parts  could  be  effected  for  the  present  play  by  the 
following  arrangement,  the  lines  indicated  being  those  during  which  the 
respective  figures  are  on  the  stage: 
1st  Actor.  Galiarbus  (21-71,  478-509). 
Drift  (211-294,  363-427). 
Master  (983-1048,  1125-1194). 
Mountagos  (1049- 108 6). 
Cardolus  (1 293-1 350). 

Leostines  ( 1 584-1 646,  1751-1796,  1811-1888). 
2nd  Actor.  Sedmond  (21-155,  295-364,  450-477). 
Nomides  (760-884,  1351-1501). 
Master's  Mate  (983-1048,  1125-1194). 
First  Lord  (1 751-1796,  1811-1888). 
3rd  Actor.  Unthrift  (211-294,  363-427). 

Lamphedon  (510-609,  644-722,  910-976,  1101-1208,1275- 

1350,  1 502-1576,  1674-1726,  1811-1888). 
Second  Lord  (175 1- 1796). 
59 


60  NOTES 

4th  Ador.  Shift  (211-294,  363-427). 

Boatswain  (983-1048,  1125-1194). 

Lomia  (1379-1493,  1698-1796). 

Third  Lord  (1811-1888). 
5th  Ador.  Prologue  (1-20). 

Common  Conditions  (98-210,  295-449,  549-623,  694-731, 
894-909,934-1048,1209-1274,  1 524-1 583,  1 654-1 8 10, 
1859-1888). 

Epilogue  ( 1 889-1904). 
6th  Actor.  Clarisia   (21-155,    295-449>    624-722,     910-976,    1209- 
1249). 

Metrea  (1423-1490,  1584-1726,  1811-1888). 

Sabia  (732-893,  1049-1100). 

Shipboy  (983-1048,  1125-1194). 
The  chief  difficulty  about  such  a  grouping  of  r61es  lies  in  the  fad 
that  at  line  1048  the  first  ador  and  the  sixth  would  be  obliged  to  leave 
the  stage  as  Master  and  Shipboy  respedively  and  return  immediately 
dressed  for  Mountagos  and  Sabia.  Some  delay  would,  of  course,  be 
inevitable;  but  I  think  it  was  expeded  that  the  audience  should  put 
up  with  this,  and  the  interval  might  be  beguiled  with  a  song.  There 
is  no  way  of  avoiding  some  such  break  in  the  continuity  of  the  adion 
without  increasing  the  number  of  adors.  Brandl  (p.  cxviii)  assumes 
that  at  least  seven  adors  would  be  required  to  present  the  portion  of 
the  play  contained  in  the  Chatsworth  quarto.  The  arrangement  which 
he  suggests,  however,  cannot  be  made  to  hold  good  for  the  complete 
play.  Lomia  and  Conditions,  for  example,  whom  Brandl  assigns  to  a 
single  ador,  are  both  on  the  stage  during  11.  1 698-1 796. 
Title-page,  Imprinted  at  London  by  William  How.  For  what  is  known  of 
the  adivities  of  How  (Howe)  as  a  printer,  see  E.  Gordon  Duff,  A 
Century  of  the  English  Book  Trade  (1905),  p.  77.  In  1566  Howe 
succeeded  to  the  printing  office  of  Abraham  Veale,  and  in  1573-4  came 
upon  the  livery  of  the  Stationers'  Company.  He  ceased  printing, 
apparently,  about  1590. 
Title-page,  lohn  Hunter,  dwellynge  on  London  Birdge  [sic].  See  R.  B. 
McKerrow,  Dictionary  of  Printers  and  Book-sellers,  1 557-1 640,  p.  147. 
The  present  passage  makes  it  possible  to  corred  McKerrow's  conjedure 
that  it  was  Holborn  Bridge  at  which  Hunter  had  his  shop.  Hunter 
(born  1 549)  was  a  publisher  of  little  note,  and  apparently  of  dubious 
professional  pradice.  The  Stationers'  Register  credits  him  with  no 
licences  of  manuscripts  between  that  of  Common  Conditions  (26  July 
1576)  and  that  of  eight  ballads,  5  March  I57f. 
Title-page,  At  the  signe  of  the  Blacke  Lion.    This  sign,  not  mentioned  in 


NOTES  6 1 

the  lists  of  Duff  and  McKerrow,  would  seem  to  be  recorded  only  here. 
The  sign  of  the  Red  Lion  on  London  Bridge  was  used  by  Richard 
Bonion  in  1609. 

Line  3,  vigill,  used  as  adjective ;  synonymous  with  the  following  word, 
wakefull. 
perpend,  consider.  The  earliest  use  of  this  word  recorded  in  N.E.D. 
occurs  in  a  letter  from  Fox  to  Bishop  Gardiner,  1527-8.  It  is 
one  of  the  affected  sixteenth-century  coinages  which  Shakespeare 
loved  to  ridicule  (see  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  II,  i,  119; 
Hamlet,  II,  ii,  105;  Henry  V,  IV,  iv,  8;  Twelfth  Night,  V,  i, 
307).  Thomas  Preston's  Cambises  (licensed  1569),  a  play  com- 
posed in  the  same  metre  as  Common  Conditions  and  in  a  very 
similar  spirit,  twice  introduces  this  word  (Manly's  edition, 
1.  5,  p.  163;  1.  1018,  p.  202),  "My  sapient  words,  I  say,  per- 
pend, and  so  your  skil  delate"  ;  "My  queene,  perpend." 

5,  thus.    Almost  certainly  a  misprint  for  "  this." 

5,  6,  Most  strange  it  is,  and  pittifull  beside,  Mixt  both  w  mirth,  &  pleasant 
showes.  Cambises  contains  and  advertises  on  its  title-page  the 
same  sort  of  dramatic  gallimaufry:  "A  Lamentable  Tragedie, 
mixed  full  of  plesant  mirth." 

16,  bare;  i.e.,  bear.    Momus  is  used  adje&ivally. 

20  +  S.D.    As  indicated  in  1.  23,  the  scene  is  Arabia. 

23,  king  Arbaccus.  I  do  not  find  this  name  anywhere  recorded.  Possibly  it 
is  a  modification  of  the  Median  Arbaces. 
hee.  This  tautological  use  of  a  personal  pronoun  after  a  proper 
noun  is  a  very  frequent  device  for  filling  out  the  line  in  this 
play  and  others  of  its  period.  Cf.  the  first  verse  of  Cambises: 
"  Agathon  he  whose  counsail  wise  to  princes  weale  extended." 
The  pronoun  appears  invariably  in  the  nominative  case,  regard- 
less of  the  grammatical  construction  of  the  noun  it  follows. 

33-40.  The  heptameter  couplets  in  which  the  play  is  for  the  most  part 
written  are  here  and  there  further  adorned,  as  in  these  lines,  by 
internal  rime  between  the  second  and  fourth  feet.  In  all  about 
fifty  verses  exhibit  this  feature,  which  is  found  also  sporadically 
in  the  related  plays  of  Cambises  and  Clyomon  and  Clamydes. 

48,  their  Snare.   The  only  antecedent  grammatically  possible  seems  to  be 

gods,  but  one  would  expect  the  pronoun  to  refer  rather  to  the 
worldly  enemies  of  Sedmond  and  Clarisia. 

49,  thy  Icarus.    The  allusion  is  quite  conventional  and  will  be  found  also  in 

the  twenty-fourth  line  of  the  Prologue  to  Cambises.  It  is  an 
unfortunate  metaphor:  Icarus  did  not  succeed  in  dwelling  in 
woods  and  caves  with  his  father, 


62  NOTES 

$6,  like  case,  likewise.  So  in  lines  299,  340,  463,  etc.  The  full  form,  "in 
like  case,"  occurs  in  line  474. 

60,  seeme.  The  author  of  this  play  is  fond  of  using  "  seem  "  in  the  obsolete 
sense  of  "  deign."  For  instances  of  this  meaning  from  the 
Middle  English  Cursor  Mundi  {circa  1300)  cf.  N.E.D.,  Seem 

V2,  I,  2. 

meeue,  move.   The  rarer  form  is  used  for  the  sake  of  rime.  "  Meeve  " 

derives  its  vowel  from  parts  of  the  corresponding  Latin  verb 

having  accented  o  in  the  stem  (e.g.,  movent),  "  move "  from 

parts  with  unaccented  o  (e.g.,  move1  re). 
62,  For  that,  because. 
66,  y,  thou. 
70  S.D.    Exit.    This  word,  of  course,  belongs  with  Galarib  [sic]  in  the  next 

line  and  marks  the  departure  of  Galiarbus. 
103,  come  sister,  etc.   Apparently  Sedmond  assumes  his  sister  to  have  spoken 

the  words  of  the  concealed  Conditions. 
130,  in  continent  should  be  one  word.   The  spacing  in  the  original,  like  the 

punctuation,  is  often  irregular,  but  the  necessary  correction  is 

easily  made,  fly  at  the  end  of  this  line  should  doubtless  be 

"  flee  "  to  rime  with  mee  above. 
146,  state  .  .  .  state.   The  first  of  these  words  is  probably  a  misprint  for 

"fate." 
152-156.    It  would  perhaps  be  over-subtle  to  point  out  an  analogy  between 

the  situation  of  Clarisia  and  Conditions  and  that  of  Rosalind 

and  Touchstone  in  As  Tou  Like  It,  I,  iii,  132  if. 
160,  reply.    Omit  the  full-stop  after  this  word  and  insert  it  in  place  of  the 

comma  after  side  in  the  next  line. 
166,  Nere  kinde,  etc.;  i.e.,  "near  kin  to  Dame  Fortune   in  my  ability  to 

raise  and  to  let  fall  (to  bring  prosperity  or  adversity)." 
172,  could  neuer  away,  could  never  put  up. 
173-177.    Note  the  forced  rimes. 
175,  For  why,  because.    For  other  examples  of  this  use  see  lines  374,  376, 

494,  506,  etc.,  of  this  play  and  Schmidt's  Shakspere-Lexicon  s.v. 

"  Why." 

179,  arrant s,  arrantest. 

1 80,  longe  of,  on  account  of. 

181,  set  mee  aparasite  [sic],  incited  a  parasite.    "Mee"  is  the  "ethical" 

dative. 
185,  rounded,  whispered. 

187,  by  and  by,  immediately.    So  in  1.  194  and  elsewhere. 

188,  7,  ay,  yes.    In  sixteenth-century  texts  this  word  is  regularly  spelled 

like  the  pronoun  of  the  first  person. 


NOTES  63 

193,  one,  probably  intended  for  "own." 

197,  spake.    See  foot-note,  and  also  the  explanatory  note  on  line  342. 

201 ,  fetch,  trick.    The  word  recurs  repeatedly  in  the  play. 

205,  thought  .  .  .  death,  contemplated  the  death  of  these  (Sedmond  and 
Clarisia)  as  little  as  his  own.  Possibly,  however,  his  refers  to 
Galiarbus. 

208,  Amedyocritie  [sic],  a  mediocrity,  a  middle  path. 

2io-|-S.D.  Here  enter.  3.  Tinkers  .  .  .  Singinge.  The  scene,  as  1.  249  in- 
dicates, is  in  Arabia,  not  far  from  the  court  of  Arbaccus.  The 
boisterousness  of  tinkers  is  known  to  readers  of  Borrow's 
Lavengro.  Their  singing  seems  also  to  have  been  proverbial 
in  the  sixteenth  century.  See  Shakespeare  allusions,  listed  in 
Bartlett's  Concordance,  and  an  excellent  song  called  "  The  Jovial 
Tinker,  or  Joan's  Ale  is  New,"  licensed  26  October  1594  and 
printed  by  Chappell,  Popular  Music  of  the  Olden  Time,  vol.  i, 
p.  187  ff. 

211,  Hay  tisty  tosty.  The  same  exclamation  occurs  in  the  contemporary 
plays  of  Like  Will  to  Like  (1568)  and  The  Marriage  of  Wit  and 
Science.  In  modern  English  dialect,  "  tisty-tosty "  means  a 
cowslip-ball.  See  N.E.D.  and  Wright,  English  Dialetl  Dic- 
tionary. 

213,  merely,  merrily. 

215,  geue  it  the  bagge,  abandon  it,  leave  it  without  warning.    N.E.D.  quotes 

Robert  Greene's  Upstart  Courtier  (1592),  "To  giue  your 
masters  the  bagge."  A  later  instance,  from  Dekker  and 
Webster's  play  of  Westward  Ho  (1607)  is  cited  in  Skeat  and 
Mayhew's  Tudor  and  Stuart  Glossary. 

216,  want  to  pay  rent,  have  no  need  to  pay  for  our  lodgings. 

217,  lin,  cease. 

219,  lether  piltches.  A  piltch  is  a  garment  made  of  skin:  Latin  (vestis) 
pellicea,  from  pellis.  The  French  pilisse  has  the  same  etymology. 

223,  shifting,  one  of  the  numerous  euphemisms  for  stealing.  See  N.E.D., 
Shift,  v,  6:  "to  live  by  fraud."  This  explains  also  the  use  of 
Shift  as  a  proper  name. 

230,  handogge,  a  band-dog,  one  held  in  bands  or  bonds  on  account  of  fierce- 
ness; hence,  generally,  a  mastiff. 

236,  nay,  denial. 

240,  to  play  .  .  .  ho  peepe,  to  rush  upon  the  victims  from  ambush,  as  a 
child  comes  suddenly  out  of  hiding  in  order  to  frighten  its 
playmates. 

245,  my  basson  must  tang,  my  basin  must  ring;  alluding  to  the  noise  made 
by  the  utensils  of  the  tinker's  trade  as  he  walks.    There  is  a 


64  NOTES 

secondary  reference  to  the  practice  of  accompanying  condemned 
criminals  on  their  way  to  punishment  with  the  sound  of 
"  basins  "  or  cymbals. 

246,  drift,  plot.  See  N.E.D.,  Drift,  sb.,  5.  Hence  also  the  name  of  the 
character. 

251,  254,  quoine,  coin.  The  form  coigne  in  Ch.  illustrates  another  sixteenth- 
century  spelling,  preserved  in  "coign  of  vantage."  In  all  its 
forms  the  word  goes  back  to  Latin  cuneus,  a  wedge. 

2 53 j  C6&g*n£t  flattery  or  deceit. 

254,  males,  bags,  as  in  Chaucer. 

256-259,  commission  .  .  .  commishioner.  Justices  appointed  by  commission 
had  a  bad  reputation  for  extortion  and  stupidity.  Nashe  uses 
the  phrase  "commissioners  of  Newmarket-heath"  as  a  jocular 
equivalent  of  "  highwaymen,"  and  Fletcher  makes  Curio  ask 
concerning  a  foolish  justice,  "What  clod-pole  commissioner  is 
this  ?  "  (The  Coxcomb,  V,  i,  20).  (The  E.  C.  quarto  prints 
"commission"  in  1.  256  with  a  slight  space  between  the  last 
two  letters). 

259-278.  With  this  altercation  between  Shift  and  Drift  compare  the  very 
similar  quarrel  between  Ruf  and  Snuf  in  Cambises  (11.  256-265  ; 
p.  172  of  Manly's  edition)  : 

Ruf.    By  Gogs  hart,  she  were  better  be  hanged,  to  forsake  me  and 

take  thee ! 
Snuf.  Were  she  so?  that  shall  we  see ! 
Ruf.    By  Gogs  hart,  my  dagger  into  her  I  will  thrust ! 
Snuf.  A,  ye  boy,  ye  would  doo  it  and  ye  durst ! 
Amb.   Peace,  my  maisters;  ye  shall  not  fight. 
He  that  drawes  first,  I  will  him  smite. 
Ruf.    Gogs  wounds,  Maister  Snuf,  are  ye  so  lusty  ? 
Snuf.  Gogs  sides,  Maister  Ruf,  are  ye  so  crusty? 
Ruf.    You  may  happen  to  see ! 
Snuf.  Doo  what  thou  darest  to  me ! 
Heer  draw  and  fight. 

The  development  of  the  situation  is  more  spirited  and  original 
in  Cambises.  It  looks  as  if  the  author  of  Common  Conditions 
were  consciously  imitating  with  no  particular  dramatic  end  in 
view. 
267,  howresun  (whoreson),  Banbery  slaue.  This  would  seem  to  indicate 
that  the  citizens  of  Banbury  in  Oxfordshire  were  accused  of 
hypocritical  sanctimoniousness  a  full  generation  before  Ben 
Jonson  satirized  them  so  notably  in  Bartholomew  Fair  (16 14). 
I  have  not  been  able  to  consult  Alfred  Beesley's  History  of 
Banbury  (1841)  on  this  point. 


NOTES  65 

274,  drumslare,  drumsler,  a  corruption  of  the  Low  German  drums  lager, 
drum-beater.  The  first  instance  of  the  word  recorded  in  the 
N.E.D.  dates  from  1583,  seven  years  subsequent  to  the 
registration  of  this  play. 

277,  Thrift,  i.e.,  Unthrift,  of  which  it  seems  to  be  used  as  a  colloquial 

abbreviation.  It  was  an  old  device  in  the  morality  drama  for 
evil  allegorical  figures  to  assume  the  names  of  the  opposed 
virtues.  See,  for  example,  Skelton's  Magnificence  and  the 
anonymous  Respublica  (1553). 

278,  pas,  care. 

280  + .  Note  the  absence  of  the  catchword  at  the  bottom  of  this  page  (Biv). 
So  on  pp.  Biii,  Ciiiv,  Civ,  Fiv,  Fiv,  Giiiv. 

283,  a  bush.  Possibly  this  is  for  "ambush,"  "m"  having  accidentally 
dropped  out.  However,  "ambush"  was  sometimes  abbreviated 
to  "bush"  or  "abush"  {cf.  N.E.D. ).  The  spacing  may  be 
unintentional,  as  in  "  a  long  "  in  the  next  line,  "  in  continent " 
(294),  and  many  other  instances  throughout  the  play. 

294,  S.D.  Here  enter  .  .  .  out  of  the  wood.  It  is  not  certain  whether 
stage  directions  of  this  kind  are  intended  for  the  reader  of  the 
printed  play  or  for  the  actors.  If  meant  for  the  actors,  the 
words  indicate  that  a  wood  was  visually  represented  on  the 
stage.  In  11.  387-424  it  is  evident  that  a  practicable  tree  was 
among  the  properties  required.  LI.  438,  446,  show  that  this 
scene  is  laid  in  Arabia. 

296,  to  trace,  to  travel. 

299,  like  case.    See  note  on  1.  56. 

311,  abiecl,  throw  aside.  Cf.  Staunton's  emendation  to  Julius  Caesar,  IV,  i,  42. 

337,  seeme.    See  1.  60  and  note. 

337-339.    A  triple  rime. 

342,  343,  breake — speake.  This  was  probably  a  perfect  rime  for  the  author  of 
the  play.  See  Ellis,  Early  English  Pronunciation,  vol.  iii, 
pp.  884,  904,  where  the  pronouncing  vocabulary  of  sixteenth- 
century  English  gives  both  words  the  values  of  modern 
"brake,"  "  spake." 

346,  simpriety,  a  coined  word  not  recognized  by  the  dictionaries ;  perhaps  a 
blend  of  "  simplicity  "  and  "  sobriety." 

359,  to  my  poore,  according  to  my  power. 

360,  The  absence  of  any  rime  for  "  tolde"  at  the  end  of  this  line  suggests 

that  a  verse  has  probably  been  lost. 

361,  and,  and  it,  if  it. 

364.  After  this  line  a  stage  direction  is  required  to  indicate  the  flight  of 
Sedmond  as  the  tinkers  advance. 


66  NOTES 

365,  366.  Rime  is  lacking  in  this  couplet.  L.  365  might  be  joined  to  the 
two  preceding  to  form  a  triplet,  but  that  is  very  unlikely. 

370,  an  end.  The  Elizabethan  Club  quarto  has  "and  end"  (see  footnote). 
A  confusion  of  "  an  "  and  "  and "  in  the  reverse  direction 
occurs  in  1.  151. 

374,  376,  for  why.    See  note  on  1.  175. 

385,  of  all  hues.    This  oath  is  found  also  in  the  quarto  text  of  Othello  (III, 

i,  13),  where  Dr.  Furness  praises  its  prettiness. 

386,  387,  and  .   .  .  and,  if  .  .  .  if. 

390,  tell.  There  is  a  slight  space  between  the  second  and  third  letters  in 
E.  C.\  "tell."  It  is,  of  course,  unintentional  and  can  hardly  be 
called  a  misprint.  This  page  (Biii)  lacks  not  only  the  catchword 
in  E.  C,  but  also,  in  both  quartos,  the  signature. 

39J-393-    Triplet. 

398,  by  his  wounds,  a  softened  oath,  amplified  from  "  Swounds "  (God's 
wounds). 
out  of  cry,  beyond  expression,  immoderately. 

403,  as  another  hale  the  end,  as  for  another  to  draw  the  end  of  the  rope 
(tighten  the  noose). 

410,  law,  la!  This  exclamation  occurs  very  frequently  in  Shakespeare. 

411.  These   two  speeches,  interpolated    between   the  lines   of  a  riming 

couplet,  should  probably  be  regarded  as  prose. 
^.ij,  leese.  In  modern  English  this  old  word  had  been  supplanted  by  "lose," 

originally  a  different  verb. 
428,  welfare   olde  shift  at   a   neede,   "long  live  old  rough-and-ready!" 

Conditions  is,  of  course,  acclaiming  himself. 
441,  I  would  not  wish  wee  stay.     This  clause  is  placed  out  of  its  natural 

order  for  the  sake  of  rime.     The  sense  requires  that  it  should 

be  understood  as  following  "For"  in  440. 

445,  Who.     There  seems  no  question  that  this  is  the  true  reading,  though 

both  quartos  print  "  Whom."  Probably  there  was  an  accidental 
stroke  over  the  "o"  in  the  MS.  which  caused  it  to  be  read 
"  Wh5."    The  same  error  occurs  in  1.  1360. 

446,  a  dew,  adieu.  Five  other  instances  of  this  spelling  occur  in  11.  472-474. 
450-477.    The  scene  is  the  same  as  in  11.  294-449  :   an  Arabian  forest. 

45  3 j  beetake,  deliver. 

464,  Lucina,  a  title  of  Juno  (sometimes  Diana)  as  goddess  of  childbirth. 

465,  end,  ended. 

468,  469.  Malone  added  to  his  transcript  of  these  lines  the  following  note: 
'"Farewell  the  neighing  steed,'  etc.,  Othello  (III.  iii.  351).  The 
coincidence  is  so  striking  that  one  is  almost  tempted  to  think 
that  Shakespeare   had  read    this  wretched    piece."     Malone's 


NOTES  67 

depreciatory  adjective  finds  an  echo  in  R.  Wtllker's  criticism  of 
the  play  (review  of  Brandl,  Anglia,  Beiblatt,  x,  p.  37):  "Das 
letzte  StQck,  '  Common  Conditions,'  hatte  man  am  ersten 
missen  kOnnen,  um  so  mehr,  als  uns  nur  ein  stack  davon 
erhalten  ist  [sic].  Der  inhalt  is  eine  wtlste  anhaufung  von 
abenteuern,  lose  und  ungeschickt  mit  einander  verbunden,  mit 
starken  anklangen  an  abgebrauchte  motive.  Die  ausdrucksweise 
ist  oft  schwtllstig,  meist  sehr  breit,  und  vielfach,  wenn  man  die 
redenden  personen  bedenkt,  sehr  ungeschickt." 

476,  a  wandryng  knight  to  bee.  Compare  Hamlet's  mention  of  "  the 
adventurous  knight"  in  his  list  of  actors  quoted  above  (p.  59). 
The  wandering  knight,  a  stock  figure  in  the  romances  of 
chivalry,  seems  to  have  been  taken  over  into  the  plays  founded 
upon  them.  See,  for  example,  Sir  Clyomon  and  Sir  Clamydes 
and  the  most  frequently  printed  of  all  Elizabethan  plays,  the 
pseudo-Shakespearean  Mucedorus. 

477  S.D.  Here  en  tret h  Galiarbus  out  of  Pbrygia.  If  this  stage  direction 
and  the  similar  one  after  1.  509  are  meant  for  the  actors  rather 
than  the  readers  of  the  play,  they  would  indicate  that  one  of  the 
stage  entrances  was  labelled  "Phrygia."  There  is  evidence 
that  the  employment  of  such  designations  was  not  uncommon. 
See  W.  J.  Lawrence,  "  Title  and  Locality  Boards  on  the  pre- 
Restoration  Stage"  in  'The  Elizabethan  Playhouse  and  other 
Studies  (19 1 2).  From  this  point  to  1.  1274  the  action  of  the 
play  is  restricted  to  Phrygia,  of  which  several  rather  distant 
parts  are  supposed  to  be  represented. 

482,  by  mee,  in  my  case. 

482,  483,  was  .  .  .  case.  In  Elizabethan  pronunciation  this  rime  would 
have  been  much  less  imperfect  than  it  is  to-day. 

484,  wit  hall,  with  all. 

487,  Hast.    The  subject  is  omitted.    So  "am"  in  1.  500. 

489,  Iwist  certainly.  The  spelling  seems  to  be  a  kind  of  transition  stage 
between  the  correct  "  ywis "  of  Chaucer  and  the  mistaken 
Spenserian  form  in  two  words,  "I  wis."  The  latter  form  occurs 
in  1.  1024  of  our  play. 

501,  Least  by  that.  It  is  possible,  as  the  footnote  suggests,  that  the  proper 
reading  is  "  Least  that  [i.e.,  Lest]  by." 

503,  atache.     See  the  footnote;  "atache"  (attach)  is  used,  of  course,  in  the 

sense  of  "  attack." 

504,  liuing  do  to  thee.  Here  again  one  is  tempted  to  make  the  transposition 

"  do  to  thee  liuing." 
509.     After  this  line  Galiarbus  goes  out.     The  necessary  stage  direction  is 


68  NOTES 

omitted.  It  is  unfortunate  that  Galiarbus,  who  does  not  again 
appear  in  the  play,  fails  to  tell  us  the  pseudonym  he  has  adopted 
since  he  has  been  forced  his  "  wonted  name  to  hide  "  (1.  500). 
It  can  hardly  be  doubted  that  he  is  identical  with  the  Lord 
Leostines  who  befriends  Clarisia  during  the  latter  part  of  the 
play. 

511,  draw  the  same  anye,  draw  a-nigh  to  the  same.     Ch.  spells  the  last  word 

"a  nie." 

512,  owdy  owned. 

524,    525.     In    connection   with   these  lines    see    the   discussion   of  the 

manuscript  notes  in  E.  C,  Appendix  II,  p.  86. 
535)  y  wretch;  i.e.,  Cupid.    See  line  528. 
536.     This  line,  like  many  others,  is  underpunctuated.     After  "is"  an 

interrogation  mark  should  be  inserted. 
553,  hit  the  pin.    An  archery  term;  the  "pin"  was  the  peg  in  the  centre  of 

the  target. 
569,  descry,  spy  on. 
57 1,  worthy  should  be  understood  in  immediate  connection  with  to  be  slaine 

at  the  end  of  the  line. 
576,  this  geare  cottons,  this  business  prospers.     So  also  in  11.  894,  1728. 

Compare  Cambises,  1.  694,  and,  for  an  explanation  of  the  idiom, 

Skeat  and  Mayhew,  Tudor  and  Stuart  Glossary,  s.v.  "  cotton." 
law.    See  note  on  1.  410. 
580.     Badly  punctuated.     "Why,  good  fellow,  explain  to  me  how  thou 

knowest  my  grief." 

585,  this  ruthfully.     The  adverbial  use  of  "this"  in  the  sense  of  "thus" 

was  common  in  the  sixteenth  century,  and  persists  in  many 
American  dialects.  It  appears  hardly  to  be  recognized  in 
modern  standard  English  except  in  the  phrase  "  this  much." 

586.  Delete  the  full  stop  at  the  end  of  the  line. 

624,  lewred,  lured,  detained  from  roving  by  the  "lure"  or  decoy. 

629,  prest.  See  footnote.    The  internal  rime,  "  prest "  .  .  .  "brest,"  makes 

it   rather   more  likely,  however,  that  "prest"  (oppressed)  is 

correct.    See  also  1.  1442  and  note. 
637,  the  tone  for  tother.     Properly,  "that  one  for  that  other,"  that  being  in 

each  case  the  early  Middle  English  neuter  article.     The  initial 

"  t "  of  "  tone  "  and  "  tother  "  is  due  to  incorrect  separation  of 

article  and  pronoun. 
640,  duke  his  sunne,  duke's  son. 
640,  641,  sunne  .  .  .  come.    Assonance,  not  rime. 
6/\.2yforcetht  cares  for. 
645,  agreements  doth  assaile.    Query,  "arguments  doth  avail "  ? 


NOTES  69 

646,  her  .  .  .  she.  "Change  her  or  she  to  his  or  he"  J.  M.  Manly,  review 

of  Brandl,  Journal  of  Germanic  Philology,  ii,  418. 

647,  for  Lady  sights,  for  the  sight  of  ladies. 
672,  gim,  the  older  English  form  of"  gem." 

678,  679.     The  comma  and  full  stop  respectively  at  the  end  of  these  lines 

should  exchange  positions. 
681,  define,  end. 
686,   687.     Perhaps   unconsciously   the  poet  here  drops   into  anapaestic 

tetrameter. 
693  S.D.,  Exeunt.    Clarisia  and  Lamphedon  do  not  actually  go  out,  but  are 

merely  making  a  start  when  Conditions  detains  them. 

706,  sure  name,  surname  (Manly). 

707,  kirsun,  Christian. 

724,  daine,  disdain.     See  the  examples  of  the  word  quoted  in  Skeat  and 

Mayhew,  'Tudor  and  Stuart  Glossary. 

725,  well  fare  at  a  pinche.    See  1.  428.    In  the  present  instance  the  subject 

of  "  fare  "  is  omitted. 
732,  Rosalgar,  disulphide  of  arsenic. 

bayne,  a  general  term  for  poison,  preserved  in  "ratsbane,"  "henbane." 
735,  Doth.    Grammar  requires  "  Do." 

737>forg°>  forg°; 
738,  vnegally,  unjustly. 

r aught,  reached,  directed ;  an  old  preterite  of  "  reach  "  still  preserved 
in  English  dialects  (see  Wright,  Engl.  Dial.  Dicl.). 
741,  the  Merline,  one  of  the  smallest  species  of  falcons. 
743,  impaire,  weaken,  reduce. 

this.    See  footnote. 

bate,  abate. 
753,  the  knights  of  Phrygia  rowt,  the  rout  (crowd)  of  Phrygian  knights. 
755,  disproue,  disapprove.    See  N.E.D.,  "disprove"  3.    So  in  1.  796. 
762,  763.  These  lines  are  borrowed  from  the  twenty-first  and  twenty-second 
verses  of  the  Senecan  Hippolytus  (Phaedra)  : 

qua  tepidis 
subditus  austris  frigora  mollit 
durus  Acharneus. 

This  is  rendered  in  the  modern  prose  version  of  Bradshaw 
(1902):  "where,  subjected  to  the  warm  South  West  wind,  the 
hardy  Acharnae  is  able  to  tone  down  the  cold."  Acharnae,  in 
Attica,  lay  at  the  foot  of  Mt.  Parnes,  about  seven  miles  north 
of  Athens,  and  was  noted  for  its  bleakness.  There  is  a  rather 
striking  verbal  parallel  between  11.  762  and  763  of  Common 
Conditions,  and  the  Elizabethan  translation  of  the  Hippolytus  by 


70  NOTES 

John  Studley,  first  printed  five  years  later  in  Thomas  Newton's 
collection,  "Seneca  his  Ten  Tragedies"  (1581),  but  probably 
completed  at  least  a  decade  earlier.  Studley,  who  employs  the 
same  metre  as  the  author  of  Common  Conditions,  gives  as  an 
equivalent  of  the  quoted  Senecan  lines : 

Where  clottered  hard  Acarnan  forst  warme  Southerne  windes  t'obay 
Doth  slake  the  chilling  colde. 

Since  the  reading  Acarnan  is  that  of  the  codices  (see  textual 
note  in  Leo's  Seneca,  ad  loc),  there  seems  little  doubt  that 
"  Accarnous  "  in  our  play  is  a  misprint  of  "  Accarnons,"  which 
Brandl  silently  asserts  in  his  edition.  (For  assistance  in  this 
note  I  am  indebted  to  the  kindness  of  my  colleague,  Dr.  E.  W. 
Nichols.) 

770,  my  vsuall  name  is  tornd.  It  is  apparently  on  the  strength  of  these 
words  that  Professor  Brandl  assumes  the  original  name  of 
Nomides  to  be  Sedimon,  not  Sedmond,  as  both  the  quartos 
invariably  give  it.  Tornd  means  no  more  than  "changed,"  I 
think,  not  "  transposed." 

770,  771,  forsak  .  .  .  estate.  This  is  one  of  the  very  few  instances  of 
absolutely  false  rime  in  the  play.  It  is  probable  that  the  last 
clause  in  770  is  corrupt. 

808,  by  course  of  kinde,  by  course  of  nature. 

817,  Otes,  iEetes,  king  of  Colchis,  father  of  Medea.  His  name  is  spelled 
Oetes  in  Chaucer's  Legend  of  Good  Women,  1438.  Though 
iEtas  is  the  form  given  in  Studley's  translation  of  the  Senecan 
Medea  (II,  ii,  1,  etc.),  Leo's  edition  of  the  Latin  text  shows 
Oetas  to  be  the  usual  spelling  in  the  inferior  manuscripts. 

800-823,  Helena,  etc.  For  the  stories  of  the  various  classical  figures 
mentioned  on  this  page  the  author  seems  indebted  mainly  to 
Ovid's  Heroides,  Seneca's  Medea  and  Hippolytus  (Phaedra),  and 
to  Chaucer.  Helen  and  Paris  are  the  subjects  of  the  sixteenth 
and  seventeenth  Heroides,  Phaedra  and  Hippolytus  of  the  fourth, 
Medea  and  Jason  of  the  twelfth,  Ariadne  and  Theseus  of  the 
tenth.  The  story  of  Troilus,  Cressida,  and  Diomede  is  treated 
in  Chaucer's  Troilus  and  Criseide  ;  the  stories  of  Dido,  Medea, 
and  Ariadne  in  the  Legend  of  Good  Women  and  the  House  of  Fame. 

823,  Shee  was  like  Lazer  faine  to  sit  and  beg  with  dish  and  clap.  The  subject 
and  possibly  also  the  wording  of  this  line  appear  to  be  taken 
from  Robert  Henryson's  continuation  of  Chaucer's  Troilus  and 
Criseide.    See  Henryson's  Testament  of  Cresseid,  11.  341,  342: 

Thus  sail  thou  go  begging  fra  hous  to  hous, 
With  cop  and  clapper,  lyk  ane  lazarous. 


NOTES  71 

825,  for  go.    See  note  on  1.  737. 

833,  See  the  footnote  on  this  line.    The  change  of  Tee  to  Tea  in  Ch.  looks 

like  an  attempt  of  the  compositor  to  make  sense  out  of  the 

corrupted  text  of  E.  C.  and  thus  suggests  the  priority  of  the 

E.  C.  edition. 
838,  839,  speak  .  .  .  break.    See  note  on  11.  342,  343. 
840,  sea.    Rime  requires  the  plural,  "seas." 
840-850.    Note  the  remarkable  parallel  to  this  figurative  self-portraiture  by 

a  love-lorn  lady  in  Sir  Clyomon  and  Sir  Clamydes,  11.  105 5- 106 8, 

where  the  man's  position  is  depicted: 

Well  then  Sir  Knight,  apply  your  eares,  and  listen  what  I  say : 

A  ship  that  stormes  had  tossed  long,  amidst  the  mounting  waues, 

Where  harbour  none  was  to  be  had,  fell  Fortune  so  depraues : 

Through  ill  successe  that  ship  of  hope,  that  Ancors  hold  doth  faile, 

Yet  at  the  last  shees  driuen  to  land,  with  broken  Mast  and  saile : 

And  through  the  force  of  furious  wind,  and  Billowes  bounsing  blowes, 

She  is  a  simple  shipwracke  made,  in  euery  point  God  knowes. 

Now  this  same  ship  by  chance  being  found,  the  finders  take  such  paine, 

That  fit  to  saile  vpon  the  Seas,  they  rig  her  vp  againe. 

And  where  she  was  through  storms  sore  shakt,  they  make  her  whole  & 

soud 
Now  answere  me  directly  here,  vpon  this  my  propound. 
If  this  same  ship  thus  rent  and  torne,  being  brought  in  former  rate, 
Should  not  supply  the  finders  true  [qy.,  turn]  to  profit  his  estate 
In  what  she  might. 

852,  Na.  Perhaps  for  No.  The  Naie  of  Ch.  has  the  appearance  of  a  com- 
positor's conjectural  emendation.    See  note  on  1.  833. 

859,^/gA/,  a  kind  of  arrow  employed  for  long  distance  shooting.  See  Skeat 
and  Mayhew,  Tudor  and  Stuart  Glossary.  The  reading  "  slight " 
of  Ch.  is  a  misprint. 

867,/5?r<?,  companion,  mate. 

872,  or  set.  These  words,  which  prolong  the  line  unduly,  are  probably  an 
alternative  reading  for  "  fixt."  The  conjunction  and  one  of  the 
participles  should  doubtless  be  omitted. 

877,  force.    See  note  on  1.  642. 

878,  a  god.    See  footnote.    There  seems  no  doubt  of  the  correctness  of 

Dyce's  emendation,  which  Professor  Manly  suggested  independ- 
ently [Journal  of  Germanic  Philology,  ii,  p.  418). 

880.    Note  the  six  alliterating  "  f's  "  in  this  line. 

888,  cancred,  ill-tempered.    A  favourite  adjective  with  Shakespeare. 

890,  891.   See  discussion  of  manuscript  notes  in  E.  C,  Appendix  II,  p.  86. 

894,  geare  cot  tens.  See  note  on  1.  576.  Professor  Manly  (Joe.  cit.)  adds  a 
note  on  the  reading  "  codes  "  of  Ch. :  "  It  is  interesting  to  see 


72  NOTES 

how  cobles  may  have  arisen, — of  course  it  is  for  cottons.  The 
word  was  written  cottds;  then  the  frequent  confusion  of  c  and  / 
occurred  and  the  stroke  was  omitted  from  <?."  The  discovery 
of  the  edition  of  the  play  represented  by  the  Elizabethan  Club 
copy  and  the  evidence  in  favour  of  its  priority  to  the  Ch. 
edition  (see  Introduction,  p.  xii)  render  it  rather  less  easy  to  ex- 
cuse the  compositor  of  the  latter,  since  he  seems  to  have  worked 
with  printed  rather  than  manuscript  "  copy."  Doubtless  the 
"  &  "  for  "  tt "  and  "  e  "  for  "  e  "  in  "  codes  "  must  be  ascribed, 
like  the  corruption  of  the  preceding  "geare"  into  "greare,"  to 
mere  haste  or  negligence. 
897,  long  of.    See  note  on  1.  180. 

908,  cutter,  bully,  bravo;  as  in  Cowley's  play,  The  Cutter  of  Coleman  Street. 

F.  I.  Carpenter  (review  of  Branch1,  Modern  Language  Notes,  xiv, 
1899)  notes  the  need  of  a  comma  after  away  in  this  line. 

909.  The  exit  of  Conditions  should  be  marked  after  this  line. 
914.    After  minde  insert  a  comma  or  colon. 

916,  seeme.    See  note  on  1.  60. 

917,  A,  ah!  So  in  11.  929,  932;  my  Lamphedon  deare  is,  of  course,  vocative. 

933.  The  comma  after  could  should  be  deleted. 

934,  Gods  ames,  God's  ^n^ames  (Brandl).    The  same  oath  is  used  by  the 

vice  Subtle  Shift  in  Clyomon  and  Clamydes  (1.  197). 
940-942.    A  triplet. 

940,  of  all  loues.   See  note  on  1.  385.  The  same  oath  recurs  in  11.  969  and  970. 
943,  What.    The  capital  "  W"  at  the  beginning  of  this  word  is  of  a  peculiar 

(italic?)  shape  in  E.  C.    The  same  form  of  the  letter  occurs  in 

the  catchword  after  1.  1038  and  in  11.  1070,  1303,  1335,  1451, 

1503,  1722,  1744. 
949,  doubts,  hesitates. 
976,  Lamphedon  and  Clarisia  go  out  after  this  line. 

983,  a  baste.    Instead  of  this  phrase  Carpenter  (Joe.  cit.)  suggests  "avast," 

but  that  word  seems  not  to  have  been  introduced  (from  the 
Dutch)  till  at  least  a  century  after  the  date  of  Common  Con- 
ditions. The  earliest  example  quoted  in  N.E.D.  is  from  Otway's 
Soldier's  Fortune  (168 1).  I  think  the  proper  reading  is  certainly 
- "  a  bafte,"  abaft,  in  the  rear  portion  of  the  boat.  See  N.E.D. 
for  early  instances  of  "  baft "  and  "  a-baft." 

984,  no  neare,  no  nearer.   The  original  comparative  force  of  "  near  "  persisted 

in  this   nautical  phrase  after  it  had  otherwise  been  lost.    See 
N.E.D.,  "  near  "  adv.  I,  i,  c. 

985,  Cocke,  cock-boat,  small  boat  of  a  ship.    The  mariners  in  Sir  Clyomon 

and  Sir  Clamides  (1.  722)  "  hayle  out  the  Cockboate." 


NOTES  73 

994,  S.D.,  Here  entreth  the  Pirates  with  a  songe.  As  happens  very  fre- 
quently in  texts  of  old  plays,  the  song  is  not  given.  Doubtless 
the  author  left  its  selection  to  the  company. 

1001 ,  goodman  boy,  a.  title  of  mock  respect.  "  Goodman,"  the  masculine 
counterpart  of  "gammer,"  was  properly  applied  to  those  not 
entitled  to  the  higher  appellation  of  "  master." 

1006,  squat,  apparently  a  slang  diminutive,  used  as  a  term  either  of  endear- 
ment or  reproach.  See  the  interesting  examples  cited  by  Skeat 
and  Mayhew,  Tudor  and  Stuart  Glossary. 

1007- 1010.    These  lines  constitute  a  quatrain  with  alternate  rime. 

10 1 4,  I  haue  dealt  with  for  tie  at  a  time  and  more.  I  suppose  there  is  only 
an  accidental  resemblance  between  this  boast  of  Conditions  and 
that  of  the  hero  in  one  of  Grimm's  Fairy  Tales:  The  Brave 
Little  Tailor. 

1023,  or,  ere,  before. 

1024,  I  wis.   See  note  on  1.  489. 
1037,  towards,  in  prospect. 

1 04 1,  1042.    Prose. 

1043,  a  boundance.    Sic  in  E.  C.    See  footnote. 

1049  ff.  Though  the  scene  is  Phrygia,  Mountagos  is  a  Spaniard  (cf.  title- 
page:  The  Players  Names).  See  Reed's  note  on  his  dialect, 
quoted  in  the  Introduction,  p.  x.  If  the  play  were  fifteen  years 
later  one  would  be  tempted  to  see  in  Mountagos  a  satire  on  the 
celebrated  Dr.  Rodrigo  Lopez. 

1056,  experienza  is  perhaps  intended  as  an  equivalent  of  the  Latin  ablative, 
"  by  experience."    A  comma  should  be  inserted  after  man. 

1060,  yee,  the  correct  reading,  of  course.  Dyce's  conjecture  of  "thee"  for 
the  misprint  "  be  "  in  Cb.  was  made  independently  by  Carpenter. 

1066,  Efata,  " — I'  faith"  (Manly).  Compare  the  spelling  "efaith"  in 
1.  1731. 

1076,  refused  the  same,  refused  my  entreaty.  The  noun  has  to  be  inferred 
from  the  verb  "  intreate  "  in  the  preceding  line. 

1079  (margm)>  Mounta^jf}.  Traces  of  the  "g"  are  clear,  though  nearly  all 
the  letter  is  clipped  away. 

1080,  longa  go.  The  misspacing  is  here  probably  an  intentional  device  to 
represent  the  speaker's  dialect. 

1082,  S\.,  i.e.,  Sir. 

1083,  And,  If. 
1087,  curish,  currish. 

109 1,  my  like  paine,  pain  like  mine. 

1094.  A  comma  is  required  after  fansy.  The  following  words  qualify  broyle 
in  1.  1093. 


74  NOTES 

1095,  feelcs  .  .  .  tasteth,  future  expressed  by  present  for  the  sake  of  vivid- 
ness. 

1 100.  After  this  line  Sabia  goes  out,  and  the  scene  changes  to  the  sea-coast 

of  Phrygia  (see  1.  1 1 79). 

1 10 1,  surprest,  suppressed,  not  surprised. 

1 1 10,  deuise,  "to  conceive,  imagine"  (N.E.D.,  "Devise,"  v.  10). 

1 1 1 1,  on  that,  concerning  that  which. 

1 1 12,  of 'force ,  necessarily.    A  full  stop  is  required  at  the  end  of  the  line. 
1 116,  fine,  end.    The  same  word  is  used  as  a  verb  in  1.  1206. 

1 1 18,  and  on  soft  ground  her  cast.  The  subject  is,  of  course,  Zephyrus,  not 
the  Pirates.  Would  that  Zephyr  had  wafted  the  lady  ashore 
instead  of  allowing  her  to  fall  into  the  sea. 

1 1 24,  deuide.  This  reading,  first  suggested  by  Professor  Manly  (loc.  cit.) 
instead  of  the  "  deride  "  of  the  quartos,  seems  unquestionable. 

1 138,  is  not  to  seeke,  is  not  lacking. 

1 140,  leeke,  like.    The  spelling  is  recognized  by  N.E.D. 

1 142,  viadge,  Middle  English  "viage." 

proue,  prove  successful.      The  full  stop  should  be    replaced  by  a 
comma. 

1 143,  merely,  merrily.    See  1.  213. 

1 152.  The  sense  requires  a  colon  or  comma  after  ouer  bord,  and  a  full  stop 
at  the  end  of  the  line. 

1 1 54,  out  of  hand,  forthwith. 

longe  of.    See  note  on  1.  180. 

1 155,  Mar  of  us   lie.     This  isle  seems   not   otherwise  recorded   either   in 

geography  or  in  romance. 

1 158,  limbo  lake,  the  pit  of  Hell,  one  early  meaning  of  "lake"  being  a  place 

of  confinement.  Cf.  N.E.D.,  "limbo-lake,"  s.v.  "Limbo"  3. 
Possibly  the  phrase  gained  currency  by  confusion  with  "  Lethe 
Lake."  It  was  common  to  speak  of  the  rivers  of  Hades  as 
lakes.  Cf.  Marlowe,  Tamburlaine,  1.  1999,  "Furies  from  the 
blacke  Co  cit  us  lake." 

1 1 59,  of,  by. 

1 168,  /  of  you.     Some  phrase  like  "bid  defiance  "  seems  to  be  understood. 
1 1 7 1 .    See  footnote.    The  speaker's  name  is  omitted  because  the  margin  is 

occupied  by  the  stage  direction. 
1 1 74.     Badly  punctuated.     Insert  a  colon  after  so  and  substitute  a  comma 

for  the  full  stop  at  the  end  of  the  line. 
1 183,  Whom  has  no  logical  antecedent,  but  it  evidently  refers  to  the  various 

ladies  imprisoned  by  Cardolus. 
1 187.    The  sense  requires  a  full  stop  after  dewe. 
1204.    Insert  comma  after  force. 


NOTES  75 

1208.     Exit  Lamphedon  after  this  line.    The  scene  changes  to  another  part 

of  Phrygia. 

The  catchword   My  at  the  foot  of  the  page  is  misleading, 

since  the  following  page  begins  with  Mlsteris.  The  compositor 

probably  objected  to  the  length  of  the  latter  word.     The  fact 

that  Ch.  has  the  same  catchword  is  definite  proof  that  the  one 

quarto  was  printed  directly  from  the  other. 
1230,    Doubt  you   not  that  I  will  omit.    For  "doubt"  in   the   sense  of 

"suspect:"  cf.  N.E.D.  s.v.  6.  c. 
1232.     To  make  the  sense  clear  a  colon  should  be  inserted  after  gentleman. 

Another  is  required  after  more  in  1.  1233. 
1236  (noty.     The  omission  of  this  word  is  one  of  the  few  points  in  which 

the  E.  C.  quarto  is  inferior  to  Ch.     The  word  is  so  obviously 

required  that  it  could  easily  be  restored  by  the  compositor  of 

the  later  edition.     There  is  no  reason  to  assume  independent 

manuscript  authority  for  Ch. 
1 24 1,  for  that.     Construe  with  what  precedes  and  insert  a  full  stop  after 

that. 
1248,  M  .  .  .  Ms.,  master  .  .  .  mistress.     Such  abbreviations,  common 

enough  in  manuscript,  would  be  expected  in  print  only  where 

the  compositor  was  following  his  copy  rather  unintelligently. 

Ch.,  as  usual,  expands. 
1259,  Pirats  would  in  modern  printing  be  followed  by  a  comma  to  show 

that  the  following  words  are  in  apposition. 

1264,  ill,  I'll,  should  probably  be  regarded  as  a  misprint.  Ch.  has  the  usual 

Elizabethan  spelling,  "  ile." 

1265.  Trimeter  line.     There  is  no  indication  that  anything  has  dropped 

out. 
1269,  whether ;  whither. 
1274,  a  mayne,  amain,  at  once.     After  this  line   the  scene  changes  fron 

Phrygia  to  Marofus  Isle. 

1276,  vncoth,  unknown,  strange. 

1277,  harded,  possibly  an  error  for  "  harded,"  hardened. 

1279,   Tet  must  he  be  aduisedly.     Does  "he"  refer  loosely  to  "hart"  in 

1.  1277,  or  is  there  some  misprint? 
128 1,  like  Troyelus  in  strength.     The  repute  of  Troilus  as  the  foremost  of 

the  Trojan  warriors  was  probably  due  in  part  to  the  popularity 

of  the  poems  of  Chaucer  and  Lydgate. 

1284,  deuice,  devise.  The  internal  rime,  "  deuice  .   .   .  wise,"  as  well  as  the 

sense,  proves  the  Ch.  variant  wrong. 

1285,  Bee  bold.    This  seems  clearly  the  true  reading  rather  than  the  Beehold 

or  Beholde  of  the  quartos.    Possibly  the  upstroke  of  one  of  the 


76  NOTES 

d's  in  the  line  below,  "  And  en*/,"  touched  the  b  of  "  bold  "  in 

the  manuscript  in  such  a  manner  as  to  make  it  look  like  the 

old  English  h. 
1287,  sammon,  probably  an  error  for  "sommon"  as  in  1.  1291. 
129 1,  Mawger.     The  capitalization  and  roman  type  suggest  the  suspicion 

that  the  compositor  of  E.  C.  took  the  unfamiliar  word  for  a 

proper  name.    Ch.  prints  "  mauger." 
1 296,  requyle,  recoil.    The  rime  with  He  is  perfect. 
1299,  my  thought.    See  N.E.D.  s.v.  Methinks:  "In  the  16-1 7th  centuries 

there   occur  the   forms   my   think,  my   thought (s),  which    are 

attempts  to  obtain  a  normal  syntax  by  taking  think,  thought 

as  substantives." 
1308.     The  omission  of  "try  "  in  Ch.  is  an  indication  that  that  quarto  was 

printed  from  E.C.  and  not  vice  versa.     Professor  Manly  (Joe. 

cit.)    restored   the   word    conjecturally,    but     no    Elizabethan 

compositor  would  have  been  likely  to  do  so. 
1 3 12,  princox,  coxcomb.     Cf.  Sir  Clyomon  and  Sir  Clamydes,  11.  441,  1779 

(Malone  Society  ed.).   See  N.E.D.  for  the  history  of  the  word. 
13 1 7,  to  vaunt ',  an  example  of  the  absolute  infinitive.     See  L.   Kellner, 

Historical  Outlines  of  English  Syntax,  §  399.     The  full  stop  at 

the  end  of  the  line  should  be  excised. 
13 19.    Change  the  full  stop  at  the  end  of  this  line  to  a  comma. 
1322.     There  are  practically  three    sentences   here:     (1)  Do  thy  worst, 

Cardolus.     (2)  I  fear  not.     (3)  I  also  intend  to  do  my  worst. 

Between  this  line  and  the  next  occurs  a  stage  combat  in  which 

Cardolus  assumes  the  offensive. 
1330,^/.     The  substitution  of  this  word  for  "  it"  of  the  quartos  was  first 

suggested  by  Professor  Carpenter  (Joe.  cit.). 
1336,  begone,  begun. 
1348,  who.   Does  this  stand  for  "ho"?  Professor  Manly  (Joe.  cit.)  suggests 

the  substitution  of  "oh." 
1350.     After  this  line  Lamphedon  and  Cardolus  go  out,   and  the  scene 

changes  to  the  neighbourhood  of  the  house  of  Leostines  in 

Phrygia. 
1357,  orforce.    Sic  in  E.  C.    The  spacing  is  normal  in  Ch. 
1360,  Who.     For  another  instance  of  the  same  misprint  of  "Whom  "  for 

"  who  "  in  the  quartos  see  1.  445. 
force,  care.    Cf.  1.  642. 
1369,  ought.    This  is,  of  course,  the  substantive,  aught,  but  the  compositor 

of  Ch.   mistook  it  for  the  verb  and  produced  the  nonsense 

"  shouldest  thou  ought  to  despaire." 
1379  ff.     The  character  and  speech  of  Lomia  owe  a  good  deal  possibly  to 


NOTES  77 

the  diverting  sketch  of  the  fool  Ignorance  in  John  Redford's 
Play  of  JVit  and  Science.    See  especially  11.  442  ff.  of  that  play 
(Manly,  Specimens ;  I,  435  fF.). 
1379,  Hey  delading  deluding,  a  song  catch:  Hey  de-la-ding,  de-la-ding. 

138 1,  barlaking,  by  our  ladykin  (Carpenter). 

1382,  and  I,  if  1. 

1389,  virgine  holes,  a  foolish  corruption  of  "virginals."    Paire  means  set. 

1390,  to,  too. 

fet,  fetched. 

139 1,  togethr,  sic  in  E.  C. 

1394,  a  napell  a  nan,  an  apple  anon  (Carpenter). 

1400,  her  none,  her  own;  doubtless  from  analogy  of  "my  none"  for  "mine 
own." 

1409,  arant,  errand. 

\\\\,flowts,  i.e.  flout  us.  The  insertion  of  "me"  after  mocke  in  Ch.  is  a 
compositor's  corruption.  Lomia  refers  to  herself  as  "us,"  not 
"  me."    Cf.  hesi&Gsflowts,  giue  vs  in  1.  141 5. 

141 5,  Gafer  a,  gaffer  (neighbour)  if.     For  the  significance  of  "gaffer"  see 

the  note  on  the  equivalent  title  "  goodman  "  (1.  1001). 

141 6,  Minefur,  miniver;  a  kind  of  fur,  probably  squirrel. 

call,  caul;  a  close-fitting  cap. 

141 9,  shee  will  .  .   .  by  and  by,  parenthetical. 

1426,  (Metredy.  A  corner  of  the  leaf  is  torn  off  in  E.  C.  Only  the  full  stop 
after  the  speaker's  name  is  now  visible. 

1429,  meaning.    Query  meanings. 

1436.  Both  quartos  omit  the  speaker's  name,  thus  giving  this  line  and  the 
next  to  Metrea.  The  compositor  of  Ch.  then  appears  to  have 
noted  the  ascription  of  two  consecutive  speeches  (1434- 143 7 
and  1438)  to  the  same  character  and  to  have  sought  the  easiest 
remedy  for  the  obvious  confusion  by  omitting  Metrea's  name 
after  1438.  Thus  three  speeches  become  two  in  E.  C.  and  are 
further  reduced  to  one  in  Ch.  This  seems  conclusive  proof  that 
Ch.  was  based  on  E.  C.  and  had  no  independent  source. 

1442,  prest.  This  word  can  be  explained  reasonably  as  "  oppressed,"  but 
Manly's  emendation,  "perst"  (Joe.  cit.)  is  very  persuasive. 
Cf.  1.  629. 
quarrel  groiid.  The  "  quarrel  "  or  bolt  for  the  cross-bow  had  properly 
a  square  head.  A  ground  quarrel  was  one  with  sharpened  head. 
N.E.D.  (Quarrel  sb.  i,  1)  quotes  from  Lydgate's  Troy-book: 
"  quarrelheades  sharpe  &  square  yground." 

1 442- 1 45 1.  With  this  vivid  account  of  deer-hunting  it  is  interesting  to 
compare  the  details  given  in  a  book  published  in  the  same  year 


78  NOTES 

as  Common  Conditions,  George  Turberville's  Noble  Arte  of 
Venerie  or  Hunting,  1576  (reprinted,  Clarendon  Press,  1908). 
With  11.  1446  f.  contrast  Turberville's  statement  (ch.  40,  p.  122); 
"  Or  els  likewise  you  may  know  when  a  Deare  is  spent,  if  his 
mouth  and  throte  be  blacke  and  drie  without  any  froth  or  fome 
vponit";  and  with  11. 1450  f.  the  remark  (ch.  41,  p.  125):  "  if  an 
Harte  be  in  a  deepe  water,  where  the  Huntesman  cannot  come 
at  him,  the  best  thing  that  he  can  do,  shalbe  to  couple  vp  his 
houndes." 

1454  f.,  depart  .   .  .  subuert,  a  perfect  rime  in  Tudor  pronunciation. 

1459,  146 1,  For  why.    See  note  on  1.  175. 

1 46 1,  slacke.    Alter  the  full  stop  to  a  comma. 

1466,  A  cursed.  The  spacing  is  probably  unintentional,  though  "  Ah,  cursed  " 
is  a  possible  interpretation. 

1485.    The  meaning  of  this  line  is  not  clear. 

1 49  9,  faint  harted  knights  wins  neuer  fay  re  ladies  loue.  This  seems  to  be 
one  of  the  earliest  recorded  allusions  to  the  proverb.  The  first 
instance  noted  in  Bartlett's  Familiar  Quotations  and  W.  C. 
Hazlitt's  English  Proverbs  is  from  W.  Elderton's  Ballad  of 
George  a  Greene  (1569): 

"  Faint  harts  faire  ladies  neuer  win." 

Cf.  also  The  Two  Italian  Gentlemen  (Malone  Society  ed.,  19 10), 

I.419: 

"  faint  hart  neuer  wun  faire  Lady  they  say." 

1 50 1.    After  this  line  the  scene  changes  to  Marofus  Isle. 

1504,  forced.    See  note  on  1.  642.    For  another  example  cf.  1.  1634. 

1 5 12,  Limbo  lake.    Cf.  1.  1158  and  note. 

1 5 1 6,  inuade.    The  comma  after  this  word  should  be  omitted.    It  marks  a 

caesural  pause,  but  is  grammatically  misleading. 
1521,  from  He,  from  Marofus  Isle. 
1 53 1,  his.    Professor  Manly  conjectures  "this." 
1533,  lease,  lie. 

1536,  takyng,  "agitated  state  of  mind."    Cf.  N.E.D.  Taking,  4  b. 
1538,  And,  If  it. 

1 546,  beray,  befoul.    Cf.  Sir  Clyomon  and  Sir  Clamydes,  1.  474. 
1548,  whither,  whether.    The  spelling  of  Ch.  is  more  normal. 
1550,  name.   The  full  stop  after  this  word  should  be  a  comma. 
1558,  j  near,  the  nearer  (to  the  accomplishment  of  my  purpose). 
1560,  wealth,  welfare.    See  Skeat  and  Mayhew,  Tudor  and  Stuart  Glossary. 
1583.    Conditions  goes  out  after  this  line,  and  the  scene  changes  to  Phrygia. 
1583  S.D.,  Here  entreth  Leostines.    On  the  probable  identity  of  Leostines 


NOTES  79 

with  Galiarbus,  the  father  of  Metrea  (Clarisia),  see  note  on 
1.  509.  It  was  doubtless  intended  that  the  denouement  should 
reveal  the  relationship,  but  the  denouement  in  this  play  has  been 
thwarted  (cf.  Introduction,  pp.  xiii-xiv,  and  note  on  1.  1888). 

1605,  -dppollo  pleasant  Muse.  It  is  possible  that  we  should  read  Apollo's, 
but  it  is  by  no  means  inconceivable  that  the  author  thought 
Apollo  himself  a  Muse.    His  classical  learning  is  strictly  limited. 

1608.  The  two  quartos  give  distinctly  different  versions  of  this  line.  Found- 
ling, I  think,  suits  the  sense  rather  better  than  fondling,  and 
dewtifull  is  more  metrical  than  duetifully. 

16 13,  doubt.    See  note  on  1.  1230. 

i6i2,feere.    See  1.  867  and  note. 

1639,  request,  requested.  The  word  appears  to  be  used  for  the  present, 
"requesteth,"  in  Cambises,  1.  26:  "  in  that  your  Grace  request." 

1644,  No.  Manly  (Joe.  cit.)  suggests  the  plausible  emendation,  "  Now." 
"  No  came  from  the  next  line,  see  the  foot-note  (i.e.  catchword 
in  Ch.)." 

1662,  beare  in  hand,  pretend.    See  the  examples  cited  in  Skeat  and  Mayhew. 

1669,  Turkel  hath,  turtle-dove  that  has. 

1687,  fnde.  Probably  an  error  for  "fine,"  end,  due  to  the  influence  of 
finde  (ended)  my  dayes  in  1.  1683. 

1693,  By.  For  another  instance  of  the  confusion  of  "By"  and  "Be"  in 
E.  C,  see  1.  114.  "Be  (i.e.,  By)  your  leaue"  is  found  in  Sir 
Clyomon  and  Sir  Clamydes,  1.  851. 

1696,  cutter.    See  1.  908  and  note. 

at  the  last  cast.    Is  "cast"  noun  or  verb?    If  the  latter,  it  means 
"  dismissed."    Cf.  Skeat  and  Mayhew  s.v.  Cass. 

1697  S.D.,  and  the  vice  iustling  hir.  "The  vice"  is  of  course  Conditions, 
who  may  have  gone  out  and  immediately  re-entered  with  Lomia. 
It  is  more  probable  that  Conditions  remains  on  the  stage  and 
that  the  words  indicate  the  stage  business  which  takes  place  as 
he  and  Lomia  meet. 

1699,  stand.    An  intentional  error  for  "stood." 

1700,  margery  milke  ducke.    There  is  a  proverb  still  current  concerning  the 

foolish  presumptuousness  of  "  teaching  one's  grandmother  how 
to  milk  ducks." 

1 701,  misteris  Marian,  a  very  notorious  figure  in  morris  dances. 
1706,  Leostler  praise,  i.e.,  Leostines  prays. 

1709,  conuay.    Omit  the  full  stop. 

1 71 5,  such  pleasat  featch  canst  driue,  canst  devise  such  a  pleasant  stratagem. 
1727,  1732,  1740,  1750,  Gods  sames.    See  note  on  Gods  ames,  1.  934.    An 
interrogation  point  should  be  inserted  after  so  in  1727. 


80  NOTES 

1728,  this  geare  cottons.    See  note  on  1.  576. 

1733,  goodman  squat,  a  gibe  at  the  dwarfishness  of  Conditions.  For  "good- 
man  "  cf.  1.  tool  Wright  (Eng.  Dial.  Dicl.)  instances  "  squat " 
as  still  current  in  dialect  in  the  senses  of  "  unfledged  sparrow  " 
and  "pimple"  (cf.  quat  in  Othello,  V,  i,  11). 

1736,  by  and  by,  immediately.    Cf.  1.  187. 

1 749,  wildst,  a  very  irregular  spelling  of  wilt. 

1755,  My  horde.    Doubtless  the  noun  was  pluralized  when  the  resources  of 

the  company  permitted  Leostines  to  be  accompanied  by  two 
Lords.    See  the  stage  direction  after  1.  1750. 

1756,  my  bord.    "Bord"  is  probably  used  in  the  sense  of  "  bourd,"  jest, 

sport.    Lomia  has  been  attempting  to  gain  the  attention  of 

Leostines  by  foolish  antics. 
1762,  My  horde,  I  wonnot  tel,  etc.   The  comma  after  horde  should  be  a  dash. 

/  wonnot  tel,  etc.  is  addressed   to   Conditions,  who    secretly 

threatens  Lomia  with  his  "  thinge  "  or  weapon.    Compare  the 

situation  in  Othello,  V,  ii,  219  ff. 
yo  will.    Compare  the  spelling  yowil  in  1.  141 5. 
ll6l,flynge,  "break  out  in  anger."    Cf.  N.E.D.,  Fling,  v,  I.  3.  b. 

1766,  1775,  law.    See  note  on  1.  410. 

1767,  hard,  heard;  probably  a  phonetic  spelling. 

1770.     It  is  obvious  that  this  line  belongs  to  the  Lords.     See  the  footnote. 

1774,  giue  you  poison  to  drincke.     Lamphedon  has,  of  course,  expressed  no 

such  intention,  but  Lomia  has  caught  and  misinterpreted  his 
word  "impoysened"  in  1.  1722. 

1775.  The  stage  business  before  this  line  can  easily  be  imagined. 

1783,  true.    There  seems  little  doubt  that  this  is  the  correct  reading,    hue 

is  certainly  a  misprint,  and  in  the  old  script  tr  and  lo  often  look 

rather  similar.     Compare  11.  1785  and  1787,  where  Leostines 

seems  to  echo  the  words  of  Conditions. 
1796   (margin),  Exeunt.     All.      The  words  have    no    connection,  "All" 

indicating   the   speakers  of  the   line,  actually  the  Lords  and 

Conditions. 
1799,  you  wiues.     This  direct  address  to  the  women  in  the  audience  is  of 

interest  for  its  suggestion  of  the  type  of  hearers  for  whom  the 

play  was  written,  evidently  the  bourgeoisie  rather  than  courtly 

or  academic  circles. 
1 801,  disease  or  disease  not.     The  quarto  is  clearly  wrong  in  printing  the 

first  word  as  a  plural.  The  last  pages  have  been  carelessly  set  up. 
1 8 10.      This    line    suggests  considerable  further  activity  on  the  part  of 

Conditions.    As  a  matter  of  fact  he  has  only  four  more  lines  in 

the  play  as  it  stands. 


NOTES  8 1 

1810  S.D.,  Clarisia.  In  the  presence  of  both  Lamphedon  and  Leostines, 
who  know  her  under  different  names,  it  is  hard  for  the  author  to 
decide  what  to  call  the  lady.  Here  and  in  the  margin  opposite 
1.  1 844  he  reverts  to  her  original  name  of  Clarisia.  Elsewhere 
he  continues  to  employ  the  pseudonym  Metrea. 

1 8 13,  wretchlesse,  retchless,  reckless.  See  N.E.D.,  which  ascribes  this 
spelling  to  the  seventeenth  century. 

1 8 18.  Sense  as  well  as  metre  require  the  insertion  of  this.  The  compositor 
doubtless  was  confused  by  the  similar  beginning  of  the  previous 
line. 

1825  f.    Note  the  rime:  Pbisicien  .  .  .  many  a  one. 

1849.    Delete  the  full  stop  at  the  end  of  the  line. 

1854,  haue  me  to  accorde^  bring  me  to  a  reconciliation. 

1858 +  S.D.  Conditions  enters  disguised  as  Gravity.  Cf.  11.  18 10  and 
1824  ff- 

1881,  1885,  1887  (margin).  The  capital  L  of  Leostines  is  in  each  of  these 
cases  (but  not  in  the  body  of  1884)  from  a  smaller  fount  than 
the  rest. 

1885,  vade>  pass  away.  The  word  occurs  also  in  Clyomon  and  C/amydesy 
I.  1087.     See  other  instances  in  Skeat  and  Mayhew. 

1888.  As  the  play  stands,  this  last  line  is  utterly  mystifying.  Leostines 
has  nowhere  suggested  a  desire  to  gain  Metrea  as  his  wife — 
far  from  it.  Nor  does  Metrea  elsewhere  address  him  simply  as 
"  sir  knight " ;  nor  does  it  seem  reasonable  to  speak  of  his 
coming  too  late,  since  he  has  been  on  the  stage  during  the 
entire  scene.  It  looks  as  if  the  preceding  line  (1887)  should 
belong  to  Nomides  (Sedmond),  who  enters  suddenly  to  give 
the  story  another  turn  and  perhaps  bring  out  the  final 
unravelling.  L.  1888  may  then  be  the  reply  of  Leostines. 
Note  the  use  of  her  instead  of  "  me,"  which  we  should  expect 
if  Metrea  were  the  speaker.  In  the  absence  of  concrete 
evidence  there  seem  two  possible  reasons  for  this  extraordinary 
Procrustean  close  of  the  play.  One  is  lack  of  time,  suggested 
in  the  first  six  lines  of  the  Epilogue.  If,  however,  the 
ungovernable  length  of  the  material  were  the  only  cause  of  the 
abrupt  conclusion,  it  would  be  natural  for  the  Epilogue  to  hold 
out  at  least  a  vague  promise  of  continuation  on  another  occasion, 
as  the  epilogue  to  the  first  part  of  Medwall's  Nature  does ;  and 
there  seems  no  reason  why  the  writer  should  on  this  account 
have  left  the  concluding  speeches  in  the  marvellous  confusion 
in  which  they  stand.  A  second  possibility  is  that  there  has  been 
rapid  and  wholesale  excision  of  matter  properly  belonging  to 

L 


82  NOTES 

the  closing  scenes,  presumably  because  of  objections  from  the 
Master  of  the  Revels.  Such  a  theory  finds  support,  I  think,  in 
the  rather  lame  and  self-conscious  excuse  concerning  the 
pressure  of  time  in  11.  1 889-1 894,  and  in  the  excessive  solicitude 
concerning  the  political  orthodoxy  of  the  play  expressed  in 
11.  1897  ff.  The  havoc  which  the  censor's  scruples  were 
capable  of  producing  in  the  structure  of  an  Elizabethan  drama 
is  vividly  indicated  by  Sir  Edmund  Tilney's  annotations  on  the 
manuscript  of  the  play  of  Sir  Thomas  More. 
1895  f.    Compare  the  Epilogue  to  Cambises,  11.  1209-12 12  : 

Thus  yeelding  you  thanks,  to  end  we  decreed 

That  you  so  gently  haue  suffered  vs  to  proceed, 

In  such  patient  wise  as  to  heare  and  see, — 

We  can  but  thank  ye  therefore,  we  can  doo  no  more,  we ! 

1897  f.  The  Cambises  epilogue  expresses  the  same  trust  with  like  humility 
(11.  1 203- 1 205): 

We  trust  none  is  offended  for  this  our  dooing ; 

Our  author  craues  likewise,  if  he  haue  squared  amisse, 

By  gentle  admonition  to  know  where  the  fault  is. 

1899,  ^s  duety  bindes  for  our  dread  Queene  Elizabeth  let  vs  pray.  Cambises 
has  a  practically  identical  line  (1.  12 13)  : 

As  duty  bindes  vs,  for  our  noble  Queene  let  vs  pray. 
1 900-1 902.    Compare  the  Epilogue  to  the  first  edition  of  Mucedorus  (1598): 

And  pray  we  both  togither  with  our  hearts, 
That  she  thrice  Nestors  yeares  may  with  vs  rest, 
And  from  her  foes  high  God  defend  her  still 
That  they  against  her  may  neuer  worke  their  will! 

1903  f.  These  concluding  lines  also  find  a  rather  close  echo  in  the 
Mucedorus  1598  Epilogue: 

The  Counsell,  Nobles,  and  this  Realme, 

Lord  guide  it  stil  with  thy  most  holy  hand; 

The  Commons  and  the  subieftes  grant  them  grace. 

Device.  This  device  seems  not  otherwise  known.  It  is  not  included 
in  the  catalogue  of  "Printers'  and  Publishers'  Devices,  1485- 
1640,"  prepared  by  Dr.  McKerrow  for  the  Bibliographical 
Society  (1913).  The  size  of  the  original  is  20  mm.  by  89  mm. 


APPENDIX  I 

THE  AUTHORSHIP  OF  COMMON  CONDITIONS 

A  CHARACTERISTIC  and  unconvincing  passage  in  F.  G.  Fleay's 
Biographical  Chronicle  of  the  English  Drama  (1891),  Vol.  II,  p.  296, 
runs  as  follows: 

"  I  promised  in  my  previous  work  to  show  reason  for  my  then  opinion 
that  (Robert)  Wilson  wrote  these  two  plays  (Common  Conditions  and  Sir 
Clyomon  and  Sir  Clamydes),  but  later  investigations  lead  me  to  reject  that 
plausible  hypothesis,  and  to  claim  them  for  R.  B.  (Query  Richard  Bower), 
the  author  of  Appius  and  Virginia.  The  style  and  metre  are  very  like  in  all 
three  plays;  the  alliteration  in  all  three  is  excessive  far  beyond  any  other 
plays  of  this  period  that  I  know.  Shift  is  a  character  in  Conditions  and  in 
Clyomon\  Rumour  enters  in  exactly  the  same  way  in  Appius  and  in  Clyomon 
(in  one  scene  only) ;  c  Our  author '  is  mentioned  in  the  Prologue  of  Appius 
and  of  Clyomon,  and,  above  all,  they  all  contain  many  singular  grammatical 
inversions  which  I  have  seldom  found  elsewhere,  and  never  in  such  over- 
whelming abundance.  Any  one  who  can  bear  the  tediousness  of  reading 
these  long-winded  folk-lore  romances  (for  such  they  are,  all  three)  con- 
secutively will,  I  think,  confirm  my  present  opinion." 

No  confirmation  of  this  opinion  has,  I  think,  been  attempted,  and  there 
seems  no  justification  for  associating  our  play  with  the  author  of  Appius  and 
Virginia.  With  Clyomon  and  Clamydes,  however,  Common  Conditions  has  such 
obvious  affinities  in  the  way  of  plot  and  character  that  the  two  works  form  a 
group  apart  among  the  extant  dramas  of  the  early  Elizabethan  period.  In 
his  edition  of  Clyomon  and  Clamydes  for  the  Malone  Society  ( 1 9 13),  Dr.  W.  W. 
Greg  remarks  concerning  the  authorship  of  that  play:  "All  that  can  here  be 
said  is  that  Clyomon  and  Clamydes  is  very  likely  by  the  same  hand  as,  and 
almost  certainly  contemporary  with,  Common  Conditions,  to  which  it  is,  if 
anything,  probably  anterior." 

The  other  Elizabethan  play  with  which  Common  Conditions  shows  most 
points  of  similarity  is  the  Cambises  of  Thomas  Preston.  The  notes  on  indi- 
vidual passages  of  our  play  show  how  curiously  it  links  itself  with  each  of 
these  inherently  not  very  similar  productions;  and  if  Professor  Kittredge's 

83 


84  APPENDIX  I 

view  that  Preston  wrote  Clyomon  and Clamydes  {Journal  of  Germanic  Philology  > 
vol.  ii,  p.  8  f.)  be  accepted,  it  would  be  very  hard  to  avoid  the  conclusion 
that  he  must  also  have  written  Common  Conditions  or  inspired  it  throughout. 

It  may  safely  be  agreed  that  of  the  known  authors  of  the  period  1560- 
1 580  Preston  has  rather  the  best  claim  to  our  play;  yet  it  would  be  decidedly 
hazardous  to  ascribe  the  work  to  him  on  the  basis  of  our  present  knowledge. 
In  the  first  place,  the  drama  of  Preston's  age  is  not  copiously  enough  repre- 
sented to  permit  of  positive  distinction  between  the  peculiarities  of  a  single 
author  and  the  characteristics  of  a  school.  Many  similarities  which  at  first 
suggest  common  authorship  may  have  been  the  universal  property  of  the 
writers  of  the  period.  Second,  it  seems  unlikely  that  Preston,  a  serious 
pedagogue,  who  became  Master  of  Trinity  Hall,  Cambridge,  in  1584,  should 
have  been  responsible  for  plays  in  which  the  strong  homiletic  spirit  of  Cam- 
bises  is  so  entirely  lacking  as  it  is  in  both  Common  Conditions  and  Clyomon 
and  Clamydes.  Finally,  it  must  be  recognized  that  Common  Conditions^  which 
is  more  like  both  Cambises  and  Clyomon  and  Clamydes  than  either  is  like  the 
other,  has  not  a  very  great  many  strikingly  individual  touches  in  common 
with  either,  though  it  certainly  seems  to  have  some. 

Apart  from  likeness  of  metre  and  vocabulary,  from  which  little  beyond 
roughly  contemporaneous  origin  can  safely  be  argued,  Common  Conditions 
shares  with  Cambises  rather  notable  resemblances  in  title,  prologue,  and 
epilogue  (see  the  notes  on  these  parts  of  Common  Conditions)^  a  certain 
parallelism  in  the  character  of  the  Vice,  and  a  decided  similarity  in  a  bit  of 
comic  dialogue  (cf.  note  on  11.  259-278). 

The  likenesses  of  plot  between  Common  Conditions  and  Clyomon  and 
Clamydes  are  more  numerous,  for  both  plays  belong  distinctly  to  the  species 
dealing  with  "  the  adventures  of  amorous  knights  passing  from  country  to 
country  for  the  love  of  their  ladies  "  (Gosson,  Plays  Confuted  in  Five  Actions) ; 
but  it  must  be  emphasized  that  the  stories  related  are  wholly  different.  The 
general  similarity  between  the  two  knights  and  Vice  in  the  one  play  and  the 
two  knights  and  Vice  in  the  other  is  more  probably  generic  than  individual. 
I  have  noted  only  the  five  following  specific  parallels: 

(a)  The  castle  in  which  Cardolus  imprisons  ladies  is  paralleled  by  the 
castle  in  which  Brian  Sansfoy  imprisons  knights.  In  each  case  one  of  the 
knightly  heroes,  more  or  less  aided  by  the  Vice,  releases  the  captives. 

(b)  The  fright  of  Conditions  as  he  approaches  Cardolus  (really  Lam- 
phedon)  is  paralleled  by  the  fright  of  Subtle  Shift  as  he  approaches  Brian 
(C  C,  11.  i524ff.:  C.  &  C,  11.  584  ff.).  In  each  case  the  cowardly  Vice 
seeks  to  ensure  his  own  safety  by  betraying  his  master. 

(c)  The  entrance  of  the  Mariners  with  their  cock-boat  and  nautical 
clamour  is  similar  in  both  plays  (C.  C,  11.  983  ff.:   C.  6f  C,  11.  717  ff.). 

(d)  The  device  of  a  lady  to  confess  her  love  for  a  knight  by  means  of 


APPENDIX  I  85 

the  parable  of  a  ship  tossed  by  tempest  is  presented  with  a  good  deal  of 
verbal  similarity  in  the  two  plays  (cf.  note  on  11.  840-850). 

(e)  The  Vice  in  each  play  makes  constant  use  of  the  old  morality 
stratagem  of  change  of  name,  Conditions  introducing  himself  as  Affection, 
Gravity,  etc.,  and  Subtle  Shift  as  Knowledge. 

Whether  these  similarities,  undoubtedly  striking  as  they  are,  can  be 
held  to  justify  the  assumption  of  common  authorship  for  the  three  plays  or 
for  two  of  them  can  only  be  fairly  determined,  I  think,  when  we  are  more 
in  a  position  than  at  present  to  estimate  how  far  such  devices  belonged  to  the 
general  repertory  of  dramatic  writers  at  the  time  the  plays  were  produced. 

That  Common  Conditions  is  later  in  date  than  Cambises  seems  very  prob- 
able. To  the  evidence  for  this  conclusion  derived  from  its  registration  seven 
years  later,  its  greater  length  and  homogeneity  of  subject:,  and  much  greater 
freedom  from  transitional  morality  features,  should  be  added  the  more  specific 
indication  mentioned  in  the  note  on  11.  259-278.  That  our  play  is  anterior 
to  Clyomon  and  Clamydes  and  not  posterior  in  date,  as  Dr.  Greg  tentatively 
suggests,  is  also,  I  think,  very  likely.  The  assumption  of  a  fundamental 
relation  between  the  three  plays  we  have  been  discussing,  whether  of  common 
authorship  or  not,  would  seem  to  require  the  acceptance  of  the  order: 
Cambises — Common  Conditions — Clyomon  and  Clamydes^  for  Common  Conditions 
has  a  very  considerable  similarity  of  spirit  with  Cambises^  whereas  Clyomon 
and  Clamydes  has  in  common  with  that  play  hardly  anything  except  the 
parallels  of  wording  which  Professor  Kittredge  has  pointed  out.  Moreover, 
the  metre  of  Clyomon  and  Clamydes  (which  was  not  printed  till  1599  and  may 
have  been  revised  before  publication)  is  distinctly  more  mature  than  that  of 
the  other  two  plays.  I  have  noted  in  it  few  of  the  hobbling  lines  which  mark 
Common  Conditions  and  particularly  Cambises  as  belonging  to  an  experimental 
stage  in  heptameter  versification,  nor  can  I  find  in  the  other  plays  any 
approach  to  the  metrical  artistry  of  the  four-foot  quatrains  and  eight-foot 
couplets  with  which  the  author  of  Clyomon  and  Clamydes  varies  the  rhythm 
of  certain  passages.  See  for  example  Clyomon  and  Clamydes^  11.  413  f.,  492  f., 
972  f.,  992-1005. 


APPENDIX  II 

MANUSCRIPT  NOTES  IN  THE  ELIZABETHAN   CLUB  COPY 
OF  COMMON  CONDITIONS 

I 

ON  pp.  C  i  and  C  iiv  are  twenty-one  interlinear  or  marginal  notes, 
written  in  black  ink  and  in  a  sixteenth-century  hand.  Many  of 
these  jottings  are  incoherent,  and  a  few  of  the  words  are  now  only 
doubtfully  decipherable,  but  it  is  clear  that  the  purpose  of  them  is  to  adapt 
the  lines  of  the  text  to  the  expression  of  the  love  of  the  owner  of  the  book 
for  a  "  sweet  Agnes  "  or  Anne,  whom  he  names  some  half-dozen  times.  It 
is  purposed  to  include  a  full  list  of  these  scribblings  in  the  contemplated 
catalogue  of  the  Elizabethan  Club  library.  The  only  ones  that  have  any 
literary  interest  are  the  following  three  couplets,  written  on  p.  C  iiv: 

(a)  In  the  blank  space  after  1.  623 : 

"  My  hand  here  houering  stands,  to  writ  some  prety  verse  to  thee 
my  morning  mynd  for  to  delight  that  wants  the  Joyes  that  be 
for  us  y(?)." 

(b)  Along  the  left-hand  margin  of  the  page: 

"  whom  all  ye  maids  of  surFolke  soyle  could  once  cause  me  to  rue 
but  thou  sweet  Anne  hath  compelld  me  thy  sweet  loue  to  sue." 

(c)  On  the  bottom  margin  of  the  page: 

"  therfore  sweet  Agnis  perpend  this  well,  whiles  I  do  lyve  in  Joy 

none  other  (?)  shall  attayne  my  loue,  though  it  bred  myne  anoy." 

It  will  be  noted  that  (b)  is  a  plagiarism  of  11.  524,  525  of  the  play,  and  that 

most  of  (c),  "  whiles    .    .    .    anoy,"  is  taken  directly  from  two  later  lines 

(890,  891). 

II.  On  pp.  C  iv,  C  ivv,  and  D  ii  are  ten  other  interlineations  in  the 
same  type  of  hand,  but  in  a  different,  brown,  ink.  These  latter  alter  the 
words  of  Sabia,  one  of  the  heroines  of  the  play,  so  as  to  express  the  affection 
of  a  lady — doubtless  the  Agnes  mentioned  above — for  her  "  Edward  dear," 
who  is  twice  mentioned  by  name.  In  connection  with  the  couplet  (c)  quoted 
above,  it  is  interesting  that  rather  the  longest  of  these  additions  consists  of 

86 


APPENDIX  II  87 

the  words,  "therfore  Edward  perpend  this  well,"  written  above  the  first 
part  of  1.  890. 

III.  On  the  unprinted  half  of  the  last  page  of  the  quarto,  G  ivv,  occurs 
a  sentence  quoted  (inaccurately)  from  one  of  Cicero's  letters.  The  ink  is 
black  and  the  hand  apparently  of  the  sixteenth  century.  It  is  not  improbably 
that  of  the  writer  of  the  words  on  pp.  C  i  and  C  iiv,  though  the  type  of 
character  here  employed  is  Italian  rather  than  "  English."  The  writer  begins, 
"  Etsi  (M.  P.)  haec  fabula,"  and  then,  making  a  fresh  start,  writes:  "  Etsi  est 
£<uAof  haec  fabula  praesertim  tantis  novis  rebus:  tamen  perire  meam  lucubra- 
tionem  nolui."  The  sentence  is  found  in  the  following  form  in  Cicero's 
Epstol<e  Familiares,  ix,  2,  1  (ed.  Tyrrell  and  Purser,  vol.  iv,  p.  292): 
"  Etsi  erat  mXoq  ilia  epistola,  praesertim  tantis  postea  novis  rebus  adlatis, 
tamen  perire  lucubrationem  meam  nolui." 


APPENDIX  III 

THE  CHATSWORTH  (HUNTINGTON)  QUARTO  AND 
BRANDL'S  REPRINT 

THE  Chatsworth  fragment  consists  of  twenty  leaves,  black  letter,  in 
fours ;  B  i  to  F  ivv.  B  i  is  much  torn,  so  that  signature  and  catch- 
words are  missing.     B  iv  has  the  lower  corner  torn  off  and  pasted 
on  irregularly. 

The  running  title  (in  roman)  is  divided  between  the  left-hand  and 
right-hand  pages,  thus : 

(Left-hand  page),  A  pleasant  Comedie 
(Right-hand  page),  called  common  Conditions. 
Irregularities  in  the  printing  of  the  running  title  are : 
B  iiv,  pleosant. 

C  ivv,  E  ivv,  F  iiiv,  F  ivv,  Comedie,  (with  comma). 
E  iii,  Common  conditions. 
B  iii  and  all  the  fourth  leaves  are  unsignatured.     The  signatures  run 
thus:   B.ij,;— ;-— ;  C.j.;  C.  ij.;   C.  iij.;  — ;   D.j.;etc. 

The  catchwords,  from  B  ii  to  F  ivv,  are  as  follows  (all  in  black  letter) : 
But;  Their;  Ha,;  By;  Ha;  The;  (Ci)Ha;  Of;  Proceede;  He;  Wherefore; 
I;  Why;  Well;  (D  i)  She;  Was;  By;  Must;  Tushe;  What;  What;  But; 
(E  i)  Or;  And;  My;  My  (first  word  on  F  iii  is  "MIsteris");  You;  And; 
Maiest;  Or;  (F  i)  And;  Did;  O;  And;  Come;  Upon;  I;  No. 

The  fly-leaves  bound  up  with  the  Chatsworth  fragment  contain  an 
interesting  series  of  notes  in  the  hand  of  George  Steevens,  who  once 
possessed  the  volume : 

Of  this  dramatic  piece,  no  copy,  except  the  following  mutilated  one,  has  hitherto 
been  discovered. 

The  first  mention  of  it  occurs  on  the  Books  of  the  Stationers'  Company,  where, 
July  26,  1576,  John  Hunter  enters  "a  new  and  pleasant  comedie  or  plaie,  after  the 
manner  of  Common  Condycions." 

The  original  entry  of  it  was  perhaps  earlier  than  any  register  at  Stationers'  Hall, 
now  remaining.  See  the  Prolegomena  to  Mr.  Reed's  Edition  of  Shakspeare,  1785. 
Vol.  I.  p.  281. 

88 


APPENDIX  III  89 

We  meet  with  it  next  in  Kirkman's  printed  Catalogue  of  Plays,  1671,  under  the 
title  of  Common8  Conditions. 

Again  in  Langbaine's  Republication  of  D°,  with  amendments,  1680. 

Again  in  Langbaine's  New  Catalogue  &c  1688. 

Again  in  his  Account  of  English  Dramatic  Poets,  1 691,  where  he  calls  it  "a 
Comedy  I  never  saw." 

Again,  in  the  Theatrical  Records  of  that  measureless  and  bungling  Lyar,  William 
Rufus  Chetwood,  1756,  Article  xlix,  with  a  pretended  date  to  it  (at  least  a  century  too 
late)  viz.  1676. — Perhaps  the  Blockhead  thought  this  piece  was  a  political  one,  and  had 
some  reference,  at  some  period  or  other,  to  the  Condition  of  the  Commons  of  England. 

From  hence  it  found  its  way  into  Baker's  Companion  to  the  Playhouse,  1764; 
and  was  afterwards  described  with  accuracy  in  the  Additions  &  Corrections  to  the 
second  Vol.  of  Mr  Reed's  republication  of  the  same  work,  1782,  p.  436. 

See  also  the  Egertons'  Theatrical  Remembrancer,  1788,  p.  32. 

The  following  copy  of  Common  Conditions  was  purchased  at  the  Sale  of  the  late 
Dr  Wright's  Books,  1787  (See  his  Catalogue,  p.  51)  for  /5 — 5 — 0. 

G.  S. 

Professor  Brandl's  edition  of  Common  Conditions  (Quellen  und  For- 
schungen,wo\.  lxxx,  1898)  is  based,  as  he  explains  (p.  cxii),  upon  a  transcript 
of  the  Chatsworth  fragmentary  quarto  made  by  Miss  A.  F.  Parker.  This 
text  is  so  generally  accessible  and  so  much  used  that  it  seems  desirable  to 
list  specifically  the  more  important  cases  in  which  it  deviates  from  its 
original.  The  line  numbers  are  given  as  in  Brandl,  followed  in  parentheses 
by  the  corresponding  line  number  in  the  present  text : 
Line  5  (217),  *»,  Brandl:  /in,  Ch. 

9  (221),  t  if  tie  toftie,  Brandl:  tistie  tostie,  Ch.  (so  also  in  11.  19  and  29). 
72  (284),  al  readie,  Brandl:  alreadie,  Ch. 
300  (513),  tree,  Brandl:  thee,  Ch.  (a  silent  emendation). 
373  (5 ^) j  I*  Brandl:  Marie  I,  Ch. 

377/378.  Between  these  lines  Brandl's  copyist  has  omitted  a  line,  No.  592, 
of  the  present  edition.  Ch.  gives  the  line  precisely  as  in  E.  C, 
except  that  "  what  so  euer  "  is  spelled  in  three  words. 


414 
54i 
547 
57i 
645 

673 

677 

763 
768 

846 

847 

848 


629),  hat,  Brandl:  hath,  Ch.  (a  German  compositor's  error?). 

756),  night,  Brandl:  might,  Ch. 

762),  Accarnons,  Brandl:  Accarnous,  Ch. 

785),  warke,  Brandl:  worke,  Ch. 

860),  wrathful/,  Brandl:  wrackfull,  Ch. 

888),  God,  Brandl:  Gods,  Ch. 

892),  oncly,  Brandl:  onely,  Ch. 

978),  myne,  Brandl:  my,  Ch. 

983),  Ha  la,  Brandl:   Ha  la  how,  Ch. 

106 1 ),  not  a,  Brandl:  not  a,  Ch. 

1062),  agoe,  Brandl:  a  goe,  Ch. 

1063),  geara,  Brandl:  gearea,  Ch. 

M 


9o  APPENDIX  III 

850  (1065),  what  a,  Brandl:  what  a,  Ch. 

860  (1075),  °ften  tymesy  Brandl:  oftentymes,  Ch. 

866  (108 1 ),  home  to,  Brandl:  home,  Ch.  (a  silent  emendation). 

904  (1 1 19).    After  alas,  Brandl's  copyist  omitted  the  words  to  end  my  dayes 

in  flood?  J  Why  did  the  powers  assigne  [sic  in  Ch.]  to  me,  thus 

converting  two  lines  into  one. 
1017  (1237),  se  euer>  Brandl:  so  euer,  Ch. 
1 154  (1374),  For,  Brandl:  Nor,  Ch. 
1 1 86  (1408),  clothes,  Brandl:  clokes,  Ch. 
1215  (1438),  Who,  Brandl:  What,  Ch. 
1227  (1450),  at,  Brandl:  at  the,  Ch. 
1352  (1575),  to,  Brandl:  for  to,  Ch. 
1386  (1609),  tfa*  Brandl:  the,  Ch. 

1388  (161 1),  deuise,  Brandl:  deuisde,  Ch. 

1389  (16 1 2),  ef,  Brandl:  of,  Ch. 
1403  (1626),  will,  Brandl:  wilt,  Ch. 


FINIS 


CHISWICK  PRESS  :    CHARLES  WHITTINGHAM  AND  CO., 
TOOKS  COURT,  CHANCERY  LANE,  LONDON. 


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